[TYPO3-commerce] current state of commerce and next steps

[Pascal Cramer]

Ingo,

thanks for the clarification, indeed the remark on the Graytree version got me 
on the wrong foot. However, it might be a good idea to remove the 4.2 version 
requirement in the install? :-)

Pascal

Ingo Schmitt wrote:
> Hi Pascal,
> 
> the current version works with 4.2 and 4.1, but depending on the version 
> you are working with, you need ether graytree 0.1.x (for 4.1 and below) 
> or graytree 0.2.x for TYPO3 4.2.x, since graytree is only availiabe for 
> pre 4.2 and after 4.2.
> 
> Ingo
>> Hi Ingo,
>>
>> thanks for the update, it's good to see the works tasks being assigned 
>> to teams.
>> In my understanding there are two versions of Commerce, 0.9.4 for 4.1 
>> and 0.9.6 for 4.2. Is this a correct assumption? If so, will future 
>> releases be compatible for both Typo3 releases?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pascal
>>
>> Ingo Schmitt wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I just want to give you a short update of the current state of 
>>> commerce and the next steps of the development.
>>>
>>> Two weeks ago, we had a very good workshop here in Duesseldorf 
>>> together with 14 developers interested in commerce. During these days 
>>> we discussed a lot of stuff and already fixed some bugs. Following of 
>>> the meetings teams are currently working on different tasks:
>>>
>>> Documentation
>>> Andrea, Patrik and Alex, who already have written some TYPO3-books in 
>>> German are currently writing a documentation for commerce. This 
>>> documentation is first written in German but will be translated very 
>>> fast to English, we already have a team for it (Dirk & Cynthia) and 
>>> I'm pretty sure the translation progress will be very fast.
>>>
>>> Drop-Downs for Attributes, Simple-Mode and Search Interface for Orders
>>> These issues are assigned to Volker and his Team in Hamburg and these 
>>> will be implemented during this month.
>>>
>>> Related Products and Bugfixes (bugtracker)
>>> These issues are assigned to me and my team here in Duesseldorf and 
>>> we will want to finish the work also by end of this month.
>>>
>>> Demo shop and development platform
>>> Christian, Sebastian an Ralf will work on a demo-shop and a test 
>>> platform for commerce, where we can show the features of commerce and 
>>> also could test specific setups. I think this will be ready also by 
>>> the end of this month.
>>>
>>> Move to forge
>>> The forge team has announced the move late this month, afterwards we 
>>> will setup this project in forge accordingly and move everything to 
>>> forge. We hope we could also setup at fore some kind of 
>>> project/development exchange system to help to develop features 
>>> together in the community.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Mit freundlichen Gruessen
> 
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen