Presentation for the Workshop at the TYPO3 Developer Days 2013 (July 4th) in Hamburg: - What happened since TYPO3 4.5? - Roadmap for TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS - Current Status of 6.2 Development

1. TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS
Workshop Developer Days 2013
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2. Roadmap for Today
• History since 4.5
• Plans and Roadmap for 6.2
• Current Status of Initiatives
• Hands On / Discussion
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3. Ernesto Baschny
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4. Ernesto Baschny
• cron IT GmbH - Stuttgart - since 2002
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5. Ernesto Baschny
• cron IT GmbH - Stuttgart - since 2002
• TYPO3 Core Developer since 2004
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6. Ernesto Baschny
• cron IT GmbH - Stuttgart - since 2002
• TYPO3 Core Developer since 2004
• TYPO3 4.5 LTS Release Manager 2010-2011
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7. Ernesto Baschny
• cron IT GmbH - Stuttgart - since 2002
• TYPO3 Core Developer since 2004
• TYPO3 4.5 LTS Release Manager 2010-2011
• TYPO3 6.2 LTS Release Manager 2013
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8. What happened
since?
2011...
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9. TYPO3 CMS 4.6 - 4.7
2011 - 2012
• XLIFF Support
• Form Content Element
• Deprecation Stategy kicking in
• HTML5 Frontend Rendering
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10. Decision Year 2012
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11. Decision Year 2012
• TYPO3 development won‘t stop
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12. Decision Year 2012
• TYPO3 development won‘t stop
➡ Decision to rise major version to 6.x
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13. Decision Year 2012
• TYPO3 development won‘t stop
➡ Decision to rise major version to 6.x
• Demand for a new LTSVersion
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14. Decision Year 2012
• TYPO3 development won‘t stop
➡ Decision to rise major version to 6.x
• Demand for a new LTSVersion
➡ 4.5 support prolonged, 6.2 will be LTS
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15. Decision Year 2012
• TYPO3 development won‘t stop
➡ Decision to rise major version to 6.x
• Demand for a new LTSVersion
➡ 4.5 support prolonged, 6.2 will be LTS
• Improve Quality Assurance
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16. Decision Year 2012
• TYPO3 development won‘t stop
➡ Decision to rise major version to 6.x
• Demand for a new LTSVersion
➡ 4.5 support prolonged, 6.2 will be LTS
• Improve Quality Assurance
➡ Jenkins,Travis, QA-Responsible,Awareness
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17. Decision Year 2012
• TYPO3 development won‘t stop
➡ Decision to rise major version to 6.x
• Demand for a new LTSVersion
➡ 4.5 support prolonged, 6.2 will be LTS
• Improve Quality Assurance
➡ Jenkins,Travis, QA-Responsible,Awareness
• CMS continues to converge to Neos/Flow
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18. 2011 April
TYPO3 Release Agenda
TYPO3 4.5 LTS
Main development Regular bugfixes Priority bugfixes & security bugfixes
TYPO3 4.6
TYPO3 4.7
TYPO3 6.0
TYPO3 6.2 LTS
TYPO3 6.1
TYPO3 6.2 + 2
TYPO3 6.2 + 3
TYPO3 6.2 + 1
2011 October 2012 April 2012 October 2013 April 2013 October 2014 April 2014 October 2015 April 2015 October 2016 April 2016 October
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19. TYPO3 CMS 6.0 - 6.1
2012 - 2013
• Namespaces, New Bootstrap
• New XCLASS Handling
• File Abstraction Layer
• Categorization API
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20. TYPO3 Core Team
Rest of the world
Core Team Restructuring
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21. CMS Team
Active Contributor (“merge“)
All Core Contributors
Core Team Restructuring
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23. TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS
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24. TYPO3 6.2 alpha1
June 4th
January February March April May June July August September October November December
2013
TYPO3 6.2 alpha2
July 6th
TYPO3 6.2 beta1
September 3rd
TYPO3 6.2 beta2
October 1st
TYPO3 6.2 RC1
October 22nd
TYPO3 6.2 Final Release
October 29th
TYPO3 6.2 alpha3
August 6th
Release Plan TYPO3 6.2
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25. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
• User Happiness
• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation
• Modern Technologies / Interoperability
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26. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
We know about the huge 4.5 LTS user-
base. Let those be able to migrate to the
new modern code-base as easy as
possible.
• User Happiness
• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation
• Modern Technologies / Interoperability
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27. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
• User Happiness
We want to work on the product from the
users point of view (customer, agency,
integrator). Making their experience fun and
consistent should guide our efforts.
• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation
• Modern Technologies / Interoperability
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28. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
• User Happiness
• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation
The groundwork of TYPO3 should be
modern, but still realistic and timeless.
Let's finish the "last 20%" for important
loose ends.
• Modern Technologies / Interoperability
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29. Main Goals
• Smooth Migration
• User Happiness
• Robust, Stable and Secure Foundation
• Modern Technologies / Interoperability
We are well aware of what's going on in the
PHP world and Web technologies in
general. Keep TYPO3 in sync with modern
technologies, but avoid "experiments" in the
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30. Current Status
of Initiatives
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31. File Abstraction Layer
• Code Sprint July / August
• To-Dos:
• Recycler,Versioning, Remote Processing,
Multilanguage, Property Bags, Indexing
• Improve Media Extension
(won‘t be in the Core)
Andreas Wolf
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32. Smooth Migration
• Project on Forge
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3cms-smoothmigration
• Extension for Compat Check
https://github.com/nxpthx/typo3-upgradereport
• To-Dos:
• Collect more Issues
• Documentation (!)
• Enhance Check Extension
• "Sprint" between alpha3 and beta1 in Essen / Ingo Schmitt
Steffen Ritter
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33. Installation
• Install Tool Refactoring merged
• Known Issues: http://forge.typo3.org/issues/49162
• To-Dos:
• Introduction / Government Package handling
• Package management / Composer Christian Kuhn
Benni Mack
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34. Backend Usability
• Clean Up in Progress
• To-Dos:
• More Cleanups / Improvements
• More Input from UX/UI Team (Jens / Lars)
Felix Kopp
(Warning: this picture no longer depicts the reality)
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35. Logging API
• API integrated and documented
• Project on Forge:
• http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-logging
• To-Dos:
• PSR-3 Compatibility
• Use API throughout Core
• Decouple sys_log from sys_history
• Enhance the usability of the BE log module
• Configuration best practices
Steffen MüllerGeorg Ringer
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36. Extbase
• Two Code Sprints 2013 already
• http://typo3.org/news/article/report-on-the-extbase-codesprint-2013-
munich/
• Next Code Sprint
• End of July
Alexander SchnitzlerAnja Leichsenring
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37. Hands On / Discussion
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