TYPO3 5.0 - Open Secrets Part 1

I am currently at the T3DD in Dietikon near Zürich, Swizerland, and so far, there was one and a half day of talks, with still a full day of talks tomorrow!

Today, Robert had three talks about the architecture of Project Phoenix, at first describing the general architecture, then giving some hands-on examples for the Dependency Injection features of the Component Manager and the Aspect Oriented Programming Framework, finishing with a "Tour de code" where he explained the structure more in-depth.

I noticed that many people don't know a lot about the way we work, they do not know the platform we use for collaboration, the documentation, mailing lists, etc. That's why many people might think that the development process is really closed and they imagine the 5.0 team as some kind of "cloud" where decisions fall out of it, and nobody can influence these decisions...

In fact, nothing could be more wrong. We have a really open infrastructure which we use, almost all communication happens in public, and the development happens in a publicly available subversion repository.

Even the documentation is only lagging about one week behind, which means that the important big features are described there.

I'd like to start some kind of series here to describe the way we work and present some of the "Open Secrets" the TYPO3 5.0 project already have to make the work more transparent to you - enabling you to participate!

I'll be very interested to hear your feedback, so don't hesitate to write me an email about anything concerning TYPO3 5.0 or this blog, or use the public typo3.projects.typo3-5_0.general newsgroup where I'll try to answer on time.

It would be really nice that, if you have some ideas I should blog about, you just write a short email to me! I'll appreciate every input!

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