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January 28, 2011

Personal Thanks

By: Ernesto Baschny

This one is my personal thank you message to all the people that helped in the journey to the first LTS version of TYPO3 (4.5).

During the past 7 months, I have been like in an intensive rollercoaster ride: Caring about the development of the new release TYPO3 4.5 has been both enjoyable and exhausting.

Our weekly meetings and the dozens of other meetings in between with all teams and contributors, the constant watching and updating the bug tracker, tracking the core mailing list and other sources of information, the hunting for bugs, the late night sessions to make even the beta releases the "best releases ever", the frustration when something didn't work out, the ever caring about everybodys concerns, the required inspiration to write about everything... All these required dedication and perseverance.

But this is just a tiny piece of the big work done on this release. It wouldn't have been possible without the huge amount of work so many people put into it. So this is my personal thank you

  • Steffen Kamper for the great spirit and inspiration, optimism and eternal dedication.
  • Ben van 't Ende for his charismatic way of making us communicate, his optimism, inspiration and making us all connect.
  • Steffen Gebert for his precision, attention to detail, help in the bug tracker and constant help on all matters.
  • Oliver Hader for endurance also on difficult times and constantly helping during the release work.
  • Susanne Moog for being available when there was the need and for being someone that really solves problems.
  • Ingmar Schlecht for his good judgement, wise words and being one of the most active "old-guys".
  • Jo Hasenau for getting his hands dirty even with PHP, his pragmatism and his non-stop presence in fixing important issues.
  • Benjamin Mack for his 4.4 release work and the motivating and inspiring words and great help during 4.5 release.
  • Francois Suter for his wise words, help, and pointing out the right direction.
  • Christian Kuhn for his attention to detail when reviewing or coding with well founded knowledge on how to make TYPO3 stay scalable.
  • Georg Ringer for helping us spot and fix important bugs.
  • Jeff Segars for his prompt help on any matter we assigned him and precision when reviewing the code.
  • Jigal van Hemert for his reliability, keeping the promises and helping out a lot with the new t3lib_mail API.
  • Ingo Renner for his intensive come-back with helping out at the end.
  • Sonja Scholz for the excelent coordination of the workspace team and for keeping the spirit alive.
  • Tolleiv Nietsch for his enourmous dedication in the Workspaces team and also on general matters.
  • Xavier Perseguers for his DBAL expertise, I am glad we have him on board.
  • Stanislas Rolland for keeping an eye on RTEhtmlarea and also stepping into the ExtJS area, where almost nobody dares to go.
  • Steffen Ritter for his persistency and hard work on all Sprites and Workspaces matters.
  • Stefan Galinski for his dedication, perseverance and never giving up on all tree and ExtJS matters.
  • Helmut Hummel for keeping us up-to-date on security matters and his reliability, endurance and precision for solving a problem.
  • Marcus Krause for his good conceptual overview and helping out with the EM and TER.
  • Patrick Lobacher for his enthusiasm around TYPO3.
  • Lars Zimmermann for bringing a fresh wind to the design team, and greatly enhancing and speeding up processes in our work with the backend UI.
  • Jens Hoffmann for his eye for the good design and sincere words and constructive criticism.
  • Berit Jensen for her help in with in the skin team and the new typo3.org homepage.
  • Peter Niederlag for still hanging around with enthusiasm from time to time, even after so many years.
  • Bastian Waidelich for keeping the link from the v5 team, his ideas and expertise.
  • Tobias Liebig for fixing the important issues when we needed them fixed.
  • Jochen Rau for an open mind and enthusiasm on everyhing he does.
  • Michael Stucki for his long term knowledge and coolness.
  • Sebastian Kurfürst for his general enthusiasm and dedication on the Extbase / Fluid front.
  • Dmitry Dulepov for his eagle eye, paying attention when we least expect.
  • Thomas Hempel for sticking to the plan to make Grid View a reality.
  • Kai Vogel for his great ideas and technical skills.
  • Mathias Schreiber, Peter Kühn and Andy Grunwald for their strenght and perseverance with the FAL front: it will rock in 4.6!
  • Patrick Gaumond, Michiel Miousse, Christopher Stelmaszyk and Linkvalidator team for their confidence, endurance and very intensive last sprint to make it a reality.
  • Oliver Klee for his precision, attention to detail and help with the unit testing and reviews in general.
  • Peter Foerger for helping out where he could, taking over leadership with kickstarter and getting hands dirty with ExtJS.
  • Peter Beernink for his dedication to the introduction package.
  • Philipp Gampe for the intensive testing, error reporting and helping out to get 4.5 as stable as possible.
  • Sebastian Michaelsen for keeping up-to-date with latest technologies, helping in reviewing and spotting errors.
  • Sebastian Fischer for a good reviewing work and providing some fixes.
  • Søren Malling for the excelent work of communicating our work to the outside.
  • Rupert Germann for keeping an eye on the performance.
  • Kasper Skårhøj for creating this thing in the first place.
  • The TYPO3 Association and its members and active working staff for supporting our work.
  • All companies, organisations and individual sponsors which helped making it possible to activate so many talented developers over the past months.
  • My co-partners at cron IT GmbH, which allowed me to use hundrets of hours of work to do the release manager's job and other TYPO3 related open source tasks.
  • My beloved wife Tânia and kids Raphael and Luara for support and understanding that sometimes a day shift starting at 7 AM might finish at 5 AM of the next day.

This list is by no means meant to be complete, please sorry if I forgot your name here. If you did something for 4.5, consider yourself thanked!

 


comments

comment #1
Gravatar: François François January 28, 2011 09:04
Hey Ernesto, you really set a new standard for communication in the TYPO3 project and this is one more proof of it. I hope the next release managers will live to at least part of that.

Thanks for being so open about all what happened and for all the work you did in general!

comment #2
Gravatar: Helmut Hummel Helmut Hummel January 28, 2011 09:11
Thanks to *you* Ernesto for your dedication, precision and open communication. It was (and still is) a great pleasure working with you and being one piece of the puzzle that makes TYPO3 an awesome product and the 4.5 release very special.

comment #3
Gravatar: Thomas Hempel Thomas Hempel January 28, 2011 09:19
I can only second what François and Helmut said.

You did a great job! :-)

comment #4
Thank you the good work.

comment #5
Gravatar: Georg Georg January 28, 2011 10:28
thanks for your work!

comment #6
Gravatar: Markus Guenther Markus Guenther January 28, 2011 10:29
Thanks for the great work, enthusiasm and the many hours you spend for all of us :)

The TYPO3 team ROCKS :)

comment #7
Gravatar: Steffen Gebert Steffen Gebert January 28, 2011 11:00
Hi Ernesto and Steffen,

thanks for the immense work and encouragment during the last months!

Your availability to us developers day and night - in the lists or on skype - was just amazing and as pointed out: communication seems to be key!
Openness towards outside and inside and setting up and participating in countless meetings of different teams, was a new way of motivation, dedication and pushing things ahead. Thanks for setting a new standard!

Thanks for the sleepless nights (yours and mine ;-)), pushing so much energy into and making 4.5 LTS a great product.

It's a pleasure and honor to work with you and the rest of the community and be part of such a great team. I know, there will be days, when I will really miss this.

Yours
Steffen

comment #8
Gravatar: Daniel Hinderink Daniel Hinderink January 28, 2011 11:08
Thanks a lot from me too: Love the result and I also love the style of communication. You have set a new standard.

best

Daniel

comment #9
Gravatar: Susanne Moog Susanne Moog January 28, 2011 11:22
It is like always: When I finally arrive at the scene Steffen already said all that I wanted to say. So a wholehearted +1 from me :)

comment #10
Gravatar: Michael Michael January 28, 2011 11:58
Thanks for all your work guys. Good job!

Michael

comment #11
Gravatar: gina steiner gina steiner January 28, 2011 13:02
*sigh* this is one of the nicest things i've ever read... thanx to you all and the whole typo3 universe, especially you ernesto. we are so lucky, that we can be part of this community...

comment #12
Gravatar: Dmitri Pisarev Dmitri Pisarev January 28, 2011 13:07
Your work is really appreciated! Big thanks to all of you guys!

Dmitri.

comment #13
Gravatar: Thomas \ Thomas \"Thasmo\" Deinham January 28, 2011 14:54
You guys rock, thanks for making TYPO3 better and better! :D

Thomas

comment #14
Gravatar: Denyer Denyer January 28, 2011 15:45
Amen to that, fantastic work guys!

comment #15
Gravatar: Sacha Sacha January 28, 2011 16:03
Thanks for a GREAT release to all of you! :)

comment #16
Gravatar: Patrick Lobacher Patrick Lobacher January 29, 2011 09:09
Arghhh - my name is there ;-) You are absolutely right - I'm very enthusiatic of TYPO3 and try to infect more and more people - but this is only possible because YOU Ernesto and all the other people named here and elsewhere in forums, newsgroups, events, blogs, ... are doing such an great job. And this is much more than just software - this is a big family and I'm proud and happy to be a part of it. Thanks so much to you all!

comment #17
Gravatar: Falk Falk February 24, 2011 09:21
Thanks for your great job! TYPO3 is really awesome!



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