Entries For: April 2008

As of earlier today, we had 258 tests passing on 2 versions of Plone (2.5 and 3.0) - yippeee!

So, with much joy, we are moving the trunk to the 0.6 branch for this release.

Next we will tag a 0.6.0 release candidate.

This release got a new directory of documentation as well as a lot of work on new features for shipping, fulfillment and reporting. Have a look at the latest buildout!

The PloneGetPaid product got a little attention today and now has all 133 tests passing (all the tests are passing in getpaid.core also). Four were failing earlier in the day, but they have been fixed thanks to the attention of Horacio (aka Perrito).

Ricardo has been helping us to clean up issues and we are down to 10 listed in the tracker, with several of those actually falling into the "continuous enhancement" category, as opposed to blockers or priority items for this release.

Also, ChrisW made a branch where he is adding some new documentation into the /docs folder. See the code.

Also, Lucie got her discount product included into the structure!

What has amazed me in working on rounding out the UPS integration...is that I think this may be some of the most feature-rich shipping integration of any of the open source ecommerce tools. We are still learning our way through this, but I was amazed to find how many respected tools don't do some of what we are already handling regarding shipments, tracking, pricing etc! Well, can't wait to get some sites launched on this and more user feedback!

Here's a quick look at progress towards the 0.6 release and an update on the release.

• We are over 620 downloads of the 0.3 release tarball! (plus buildout usage)
• A bug got fixed in the 0.3 buildout branch this past week
• Several bugs got fixed in the trunk, including restored Plone 2.5 compatibility for the buildout, report-related bugs, template changes, and more.  Also, a tool got added to extract email addresses from customer records. Check out the change logs to see more.
  
• We are down to 14 issues tagged for M2 (actually less once we verify closure...). See the issues and grab one to fix or test!
  
• The 0.6 release branch will be made later this week. If you have goodies to include or bugs to fix, please do them asap!
  

Thanks for tuning in. Grab an issue, test the tools, and let us know how it looks so we can make way for 0.6 :)

GetPaid's second major release, this one provides complete fulfillment and shipping functionality as well as several enhancements to the base product, such as address book, warehouse and inventory management, reports, and UPS shipping calculator integration. This version supports Plone 2.5 and Plone 3.0. Hopefully it will also get the Discount product included as well.

Where are we today?

Lots of changes have been going on (see the older blog posts for a summary) and great new features, especially around fulfillment and shipping.  Basically, to the solid framework established in the Red Ochre release (0.3), we have built out fulfillment functionality quite extensively.

Ohloh reports us as having over 10,000 lines of code now!

What next?

Next week, probably, we will make our release branch of the code. There will be some complexity around making tarballs that work, so expect them a while later.

We still have several issues that are targeted at this release.

We also need a catchy code name for this release :)

One thing to note...this will be our last release supporting Plone 2.5, unless someone new steps up to do the maintenance on that part of the code. The future release (0.9) will probably be lots of cleaning and UI improvements, plus the new features people think up to include :)

As usual, more news to come here...and if you are interested to get involved, please join our mailing list, find us on #getpaid (irc), and help test the current code, via buildout.