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2. Developers Network Store (working title, but likely to stay)
3. No deadlines at the moment simply because we're in the very early stages of requirements gathering and it's best not to rush it. But when we confirm who will be managing the project I imagine we'll lay down a roadmap with some dates.
Greetings,
I found this project doing a google search about oscommerce, and I want to let you know that here at export-japan.com, our clients use oscommerce quite a bit because it has the Japanese language interface available. However, we are very often asked to "customize" oscommerce, which I am sure you all know is like drilling a hole in your hand and soaking it in lemon juice. So we here have been thinking about recreating oscommerce ourselves. But when I found this project, my boss told me to go ahead and get involved in some capacity.
So I am volunteering to join the core volunteer team as an employee of export-japan.com. I am currently working on another project with a quickly approaching deadline, but once that passes I will have time in my schedule to work on this.
Welcome aboard... you haven't missed much and anything you have missed is here or in the wiki. Don't worry about how much time you can contribute. I am completely swamped at work all the sudden... so I am going to have to kind of just watch for a little bit, and I'm sure others are quite busy as well.
Busy. Man, I wish I was only busy. I am absolutely swamped right now. My new job (and the longer drive associated with it) are really taking a time toll on me and it has only been a few days. Oh well, I am sure I'll be back in regular form soon so I can help out a little here and there.
I have tried to keep up with this project and every time I check back in the main thing I think is that this project needs to get the application framework right first. An ecommerce site is really a fairly conventional website with the unique cart and checkout added. It is an excellent use case for developing a framework because it combines lots of things into one site. It has a relational product catalog, it has customizable/skinable content, it has user authentication and access control, it has user and administrative areas, it has the interesting data design challenge of the shopping cart, an application controller for the checkout process, and external services based transaction plugins. It is an excellent combination of use cases to use to develop a framework. Get the framework right and the rest of the work is detail stuff to make it user friendly. Also get the framework right and it will be what oscommerce is not -- programmer friendly.