Personal Thanks

Category: Ernesto Baschny, People, Robert Lemke, Sebastian Kurfürst, Stephane Schitter, Michael Stucki, Patrick Gaumond, Thomas Hempel, Mario Rimann, Ries

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!