[TYPO3-shop] ext:commerce is out!

[Thomas Murphy]

Hi,

Pablo Martinez wrote:
> The problem with the dev team for ext commerce is not that nothing was 
> provided!
> The problem is, like with many other teams, the *communication*.

> Nothing is communicated, so nothing ios provided! This is a totally 
> normal (re)action. So no need for the team to grumble.
> 
> Communicate things in a way that many people get this information - 
> communicate "open" like the intension and passio0n of "open source 
> software" is.

That's also my opinion about commerce - and that's why I came to believe 
it will either never come out, or be dissappointing compared to the time 
it took.

I remember Kaspers speech on TyCon3, where he said that maybe people 
don't think they might contribute somewhere, because a seat is already 
taken. Commerce is a good example for it.
The time it has been developed, it was also blocking other people in 
developing a shop, because the news always where like "it's coming out 
the next week!" - and who wants to spent time and energy on an extension 
that will have a semi-official counterpart soon?

I started my own ideas on a shop system, that will be (from what I've 
seen) more flexible than commerce - when I ever find the time to invent it.
And with TYPO3 v5.0 in the making, I really don't know if it's worth to 
spent time on a v4.0 extension as big like this...

> So if things are communicated properly people are very willing to 
> contribute -> because they know what they are contributing for!

That's the point. Someone on the list said commerce actually is "closed 
source" -  he was definitely right.


Anyway, I still wish the development team good luck with their efforts, 
maybe it will turn out good in the end. And TYPO3 still needs a shopping 
system, that's for sure.

bye,
Thomas