[TYPO3-commerce] Status on TYPO3 commerce after developer meeting in Munich

[Rik Willems]

Hi Ingo and all others,

Congratulations on the great work you all have done over the last 
weekend. It was a joy to see all the Forge mails streaming into my mailbox.

There is a bright future for Commerce!

Greets, Rik


Ingo Schmitt schreef:
> Hi TYPO3 Commerce list,
> 
> the TYPO3 Commerce meeting in Munich was very successful. We have 
> tracked quite a lot of issues, only less than 20 issues are open at this 
> moment. Many thanks to all who have reported bugs, have written patches 
> and many many thanks to all the developers who have checked all the 
> issues during this weekend! (For those who want to check the current 
> version, just checkout from the SVN!)
> 
> We have also discussed the next steps and the further development:
> Sascha and Volker will fix the Attributes drop down issues during the 
> next days. Afterwards we want to release a 0.12.x as RC for Commerce. 
> This Version will be the next version in TER and forge. We encourage to 
> check the next version and to report bugs. The English manual is 
> processing very well, when it's ready we want to release the next 
> version covering the issues from the RC Version 0.12.x including the 
> manual as 1.0.0 of Commerce!
> 
> In the future we will have a more organized way to work on issues and 
> features for commerce. We will publish guidelines and policies on the 
> commerce-page at forge and announce the documents in this list also!
> 
> We also have worked on a demo-shop for commerce, which is nearly ready 
> and which will be available as install package like the dummy package! 
> Here we need some more help, we need editors who insert some products to 
> the demo package, designers, who will create templates and css files and 
> many more helping hands to keep the demo-package up to date. Our goal 
> is, to have a demo-shop which is far better than other opensource shop 
> systems!
> 
> Having a look at a development version, I'm very proud of what we have 
> developed in the last year and I'm looking really forward to what we 
> will develop in the next years!
> 
> Best regards and again many thanks to all, who have worked on this project!
> 
> Ingo
> 
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen