Entries For: August 2007

GetPaid is definitely in the last 10-20% till the finish line for the release - but it seems like the amount of work to get us to the release, though, is not of equal percentage! There are a lot of things to be done and we hope you all will join in contributing in some way to release process.

Some news

• there is now ability to change quantities in the cart (thanks matiasb!), get it in the latest tarball (http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/downloads/list ) or buildout
• we have Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian translations of the product - thanks to all who contributed translations!
• we are in the process of getting up the product at plonegetpaid.com
• new documentation has been generated, see http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/DocumentationHowTosAndTutorials

How can you help?

Glad you asked! Maybe you are hoping to dip into community contributor mode this weekend. Well, GetPaid is a welcome place for you! There are a lot of things that can be done to help at the moment, and we would love to have you take on something.
Find what you want to do at:

• Issues: Things there for novice to guru, documenter to developer. Find out more at http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/issues/list  . If you take on an issue, please assign it to yourself (click on the comment area) and mark it as "started".
• Documentation: for developers, integrators, site managers, end users...check out the outline at http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/DocumentationHowTosAndTutorials
• Testing: download the tarball (http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/downloads/list ) and give it a whirl! Take a fine toothed comb to it and file any issues you find on our tracker (http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/issues/list )
• Translations/i18n: A few more spots in the code need i18n tags, and more translations are always welcome. Please check out http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/TranslateGetPaid

If you have any questions, please write to the list to get more info. You can email me to request permissions for the site.

Thanks again for all your help in making GetPaid rock!

All the posts on the site can be accessed from www.plonegetpaid.com/updates

Kapil Thangavelu, lead architect of GetPaid and cofounder of ObjectRealms, will give a talk entitled "GetPaid - Making Money with Plone". The talk will provide developers a glimpse of how Zope 3 was used to create the GetPaid product and how it can be used and extended to create custom commerce solutions in Plone.

Chris Johnson, organizer of GetPaid and cofounder of ifPeople, will give a talk entitled "The story of GetPaid and a 'social source' process to create new opportunities with Plone". This talk builds on a talk delivered at the Regional Free Software Conference in Cordoba, Argentina that outlines how the project was organized using an entrepreneurial, participative model.

We are glad that the conference organizers chose GetPaid as a product to spread within the Plone community at the upcoming conference!

Find more on the conference

See the complete list of talks.

I just posted a note on theploneblog.org that I have been waiting to post since the Google sprint - an entry about GetPaid's birthday. Honestly, I had no idea so much was going to happen during this week. I am in Argentina at a retreat with our development team (made up for FairSource partners). Kapil decided to up and head to Argentina as well...

Last week was an enormous regional Free Software conference, where Plone was a main feature. There were dozens of Plone, Zope and Python talks (about 1500 people total). I gave a talk on "social sourcing", which is the name I use for how the project has been organized (and which just got accepted for the Plone Conference) and we organized an i18n sprint for GetPaid.

In addition to getting most of the product internationalized in one day, we decided to carry on the work on the product. We closed a lot of issues collaborating while Kapil refactored pieces of the checkout and layout. Among the issues tackled, a Zope 3 widget for country and state dropdowns was created (Javier and Matias), lots of internationalization work (and a translation to Spanish and Italian), fix of decimal places display, fix of usability issues (display of checkout button when no items in cart, adding checkout button on cart portlet). Also view for order administration were improved (especially for user). Bugs of admin screen links and workflow transitions were fixed. Additionally, ore.member was ripped out (and in the process we made possible anonymous checkout, and are in the process of adding it as a configuration option). The authorize.net process was broken and then fixed :) I was delighted to see an email from authorize.net saying that my payment had been authorized (see below)!

I was really blow away by the amount of things we got done here. I grabbed a huge bell from the hotel we are at (see photo) to institute celebrations for each fix:) Thanks to the FairSource team and to Kapil for his drive.

GetPaid has a number of outstanding issues at the moment in the leadup to our Red Ochre release (0.3, see issues here).

A few updates (from Argentina):

• Issues are being added and eliminated. Please grab a bug or issue and help us hit the release!
• The product README now contains information on getting started with the project (and was completely updated)
• The dev site has been updated with the latest code as of today, which includes a fix of the payment processor (authorize.net)
• A new tarball of products is available (from Aug 15)
• Internationalization of the product is very advanced, and now includes a Spanish and Italian translation. Work pending on the zope-specific product (getpaid.core). Thanks to i18n Sprint participants at the Jornadas de Software Libre in Cordoba, Argentina!
• Kapil is currently in Argentina working with a group of FairSource developers to work towards the release. 
• ore.member (a simple product for customizing membership properties) is being removed from the product before release
• Documentation development is underway - if you can contribute, please see the outline here .
  

Call for testing reminder!

Please remember that we need help testing in preparation for the alpha release candidate! Get the latest tarball from our Google Code downloads section or you can also checkout the code via buildout by checking out the source. Please report any issues you find to thedevelopment mailing list. Check the Product Description/Readme after installation to learn about using the product.

Gathered at the National University for the regional free software conference in Cordoba are a small group of Plonistas, mostly from ifPeople's FairSource partners, working on internationalization of GetPaid. The one-day sprint is quickly progressing through the templates of the product and already running tests to check the work.

For more on what we are doing, please see the sprint's wiki page.