[TYPO3-commerce] commerce development - next steps

[Christian Kuhn]

Hey there,

to keep you informed on what has been discussed by Volker, Ingo and me 
recently, regarding the current flow of activity in commerce:

- e-netconsulting has an interest in finishing and committing the 'new 
payment' patch (issue #4980). This should be done without major breaking 
changes in current code base. Thus, we decided to push this patch and 
will hopefully finish it soon. As soon as this patch made it to trunk, 
we will release 0.13.0, a version that can be upgraded to from prior 
versions without major headaches. If we already broke things recently, 
we will consider this as bugs of 0.13 (like issue #26957).

- After 0.13, we are able to release minor bugfixes for this version and 
will open trunk for major refactorings like fluid _inclusive_ breaking 
changes. We want to develop trunk as far as needed to come up with a new 
base for piX classes and parts of the db API, then.

We hope this path is ok for you.

Regards
Christian