Getpaid Sprint Report Out from Plone Conference

Following the conference and the talk on GetPaid that got some new people interested in the product, we launched into yet another GetPaid sprint. Conference sprints are great about getting new people involed as well as connecting those in the community. At this sprint, we had 2 people who had been working on GetPaid, Ken (from Contextual Corp, and a sponsor of GetPaid) and Adam (a local to the conference who I got to meet for the first time), and 4 people who were new, including 3 Italians from Abstract (Bruno and Antonio added their names to the checkin roster during the sprint!) and Lee (who shared his PayPal knowledge). What follows is a Sprint report-out of what our small band was able to accomplish (an alternative to this narrative presentation is the list that Ken composed: http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/PloneConf2008DCSprint ).

On Saturday (see day one crew), we battled network issues to get everyone set up with a buildout. Luckily, it eventually worked (after over 2 hours). In the process, we verified that the recipe created by Lucie works (yeah!!!), making it very easy to drop GetPaid into an existing buildout. We also created a new .cfg file for those wanting to peg their version of Plone with 3.1.6 (the latest release), adding to the buildout configurations for Plone 2.5 and 3.0 that already exist. Even better, the documentation for how to get started was updated with this new info (http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/DevGettingStarted ).

With the work on Plone 3.1.6, we found a test that was failing (though for a rather silly reason that had nothing to do with GetPaid) and Ken and Adam went about fixing that (rev2064).

Antonio and Bruno went after issues in the tracker with a vengence. Antonio paired with Ken to take on an issue to take out the mystery in matching orders in GetPaid and your payment processor (issue #116). They succeeded to persist processor transaction id and last-4 digits of credit card to ZODB. Also, modified order-summary.pt to present these two fields (rev2072-2074). Bruno also took out #151, which makes it easier to set up GetPaid (more intuitive default settings), added missing Italian translations, and fixed the dist.plone.org links. Adam took on an issue of making the checkout wizard configurable and also created a Howto on adding an administrative screen in GetPaid (something formerly rather mysterious). He added a starting page for making features in the checkout configurable (rev2083 ) and a Howto. 

While they sprinted, I worked on updating the internationalization files in GetPaid. Since it has been a while since they were updated, several new ids for tranlation had been introduced (over 100) and all the language files needed these sync'ed so the translations could be added. It was a bit of a mystery on doing this, but with Hanno's help, I was able to get through it. In the process, I discovered some issues with how one of the three domains we use and so couldn't complete the updating (we need to fix the domain tags first)

Sunday was also a bit of a payment processor sprint (see the brain trust). Payment processors are many and varied and most people using GetPaid will at least consider implementing their own, either for existing bank preferences or need for something in their own country. We had Alex (from Finland) and Ken and Lee (both with interest in PayPal) going over the interfaces and examining the APIs. The work on PayPal led to clarification about a few changes needed to get the off-site payment working.

If you want a more detailed view of the changelog, check out:
- Google code's changelog: http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/source/list
- Or the list subscribed to the changes: http://groups.google.com/group/getpaid-changes