Chris, "Interface Champions/Experts" are a good idea. but I am on the same side as you - nearer to the core than to interfaces: I like automatic tests and I have no accounts on these services. I write test because no person is also capable to verify something many times. Naturarely it would not be a good idea to produce a software asking repeatedly servers of any company with an example data for every "manage.py test" run by a user who is not aware of it.
An *archive of anonymised standard on-line responses* to standard test requests can be created together. That would be a distant future in contrast with your present ideas but it can be added to your five items. An expert is capable naturarely to track changes in some services which he uses and he could cooperate eventually by assessment some test data, but he need not be capable to find bugs in the source code etc. I remember that I caused freezing of refactoring of tax processors interface (#1288) because I did not know an expert for most of them and I was not sure that it does not change anything accidentally. Other example: examining of speed issues is easier reproducible with elimination of network requests http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/browse_thread/thread/7d9916ebf0088440 (new Fedex thread) Nobly said: Ionic Drive cooperated with me several days as expert for the previous Fedex :-) -- Hynek On 28 lis, 23:46, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the unique challenges with a project like Satchmo is maintaining > compatibility with all the external gateways and interfaces we support. It > takes a decent amount of time to understand all the vagaries of something > like Authorize.net, Paypal or google not to mention UPS, Fedex, etc. At one > point in time, I have had ID's and accounts for most of these but I find it > hard to stay on top of them. I was thinking that it might be good to have > community members volunteer to be the point person for maintaining these > components of satchmo. We could call them Interface Champions or Interface > Experts or whatever strikes your fancy. > > Basically, what I would be looking for is someone to: > - Have a solid understanding of the usage of the various gateway/api > - Be willing to update Satchmo as the interface changes > - Recommend ways to improve Satchmo's support for the interface > - Help with general documentation and troubleshooting > - Help identify ways that Satchmo can evolve to use the other features we > may not incorporate right now > > Obviously this is a volunteer basis and this is all strictly non-binding > but I think if someone consistently uses one of these interfaces, then it > isn't too hard to stay on top of it and help lead it as it evolves. > > My question for the group, is there interest in this approach and are there > people willing to step up to help out? > > Thanks, > Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" 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/satchmo-users?hl=en.
