Hi, I participated the GetPaid sprint in Budapest. There were some worries among the participants for which I have ginve thoughts afterwards.
Many people would love to use GetPaid for creating shops, but it won't do it. Currently there are huge gaps within the code (payment processors, taxes, variant items, architecture limitations) which are necessities for a basic shop functionality. If you want to use GetPaid, be prepared to spent countless of hours writing everything from scratch and "fight against the framework". Until we have a solid working shop platform I suggest not mentioning "shop" on www.plonegetpaid.com and actually tell the people to seek help from Python shopping products. Also, GetPaid future does not look very bright. Since the orignal work was sponsored, the orignal authors have not been very activate with the community. With the current state of the code it is hard to get anything done unless you have years of Plone experience. Most users who would like to use or develop GetPaid don't necessarily have this. They might try and get frustrated after couple of hours. There is also lack of release manager or trunk maintainer. There is no one "in control" and people may or may not commit something into trunk. The vision and active maintenance is missing. There is no roadmap. There is no committed maintainers. This kind of organization may fit for small static components like most of those in Plone collective, but it definite doesn't seem to work with GetPaid. So, should people looking for shopping products abandon GetPaid in favour of other solutions? There is so much good work in GetPaid, but it is so hard to get anything out of it. -Mikko -- GetPaid for Plone: http://www.plonegetpaid.com (overview info) | http://code.google.com/p/getpaid (code and issue tracker) You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "getpaid-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/getpaid-dev?hl=en?hl=en
