#1: Frank Kübler commented on Friday, 30-03-07 11:02

Great article (the one from Sudara).

This really touches the sore spot of TYPO3 in my eyes. The T3Pro's answers "haven't you read TSref..." is not very helpfull for the popularity among new T3Users.
So that's what I said several times before. We need documentation, documentation, documentation. TSref is ok for developers and programmers, for T3Housewifes like me it's mostly confusing.

At one point I disagree with Sudara: I don't see the community as democraty for me it's more like a shark tank.
I think a better comparison would be an open jam session. You have some really good musician which will play on the stage (the core developers) and you have a big audience which will only listen. Maybe you have also a superstar taking part (on vocals: Kasper). In the audience there are also musicians, but they think they are not good enought to go on stage to play in front of the audience. Some of them might play, some might prefere to play at home and not to share the musik with the audience (to program extensions never published). One thing left: We were talking about documentation. Question: do you think you will find someone at your jam session writing down the notes the musicians played?

Well then, on this note:
TYPO3 rocks!

#2: avagraphique (Andrew D) commented on Friday, 30-03-07 17:02

An yet, after figuring a few things out, I understand why RTFM is often the answer.... Often times questions are already answered. Developers are busy folks, and have little patience for folks who dont do research. Docs need to be refined an organized for sure, to help us find the answers, but this is a community, so everyone must do some work!

#3: JD commented on Monday, 02-04-07 09:37

I tought the whole weekend about this open letter, and I wrothe my toughts down as comment...

I think that's the most important part:

"...
The Power of TYPO3 is:
The things get done, created, built and published. Most of them are not perfect but they are there, and most of them work.

That's the big difference about TYPO3. It's not the cms for newbees, it's not the coolest fancy AJAX cms, it's not newest PHP OOP cool API crazy tought student intelligent project cms.

!! It is simple the only open source CMS that let us solve nearly all the problems the customer has. !!
..."

The whole thing should be at the end of the comment list on the buzz.typo3.org page.