Updates from the bleeding edge

First, a quick note...we now have over 400 downloads of our latest release (0.6.1).

Second, Ohloh reports GetPaid as now over 15,000 lines of code!

Third, there has been a good bit of code sharing going on in the community as people are helping each other in their specific projects. Keep an eye on (or join) the mailing list if you want to learn more or partake! Adding fields on the checkout, removing fields, changing payment options and more have all been discussed recently.

And, there was a new piece of documentation written about upgrading your GetPaid and Plone. Check out http://ejahn.net/Members/eric/stories/getpaid-.6-update

Finally, we are up to 125 people on the mailing list.

Code updates:

• Discounts: the discounts product has been getting an overhaul by Lucie. Latest changes include the discount portlet (shows info on the discount). Note to 2.5 users, check the README for how to get this working in your site). The product has had some fixes and has evolved.
  
• Maurits also reported changes: The price of an item is now added to its catalog brain.  So when you have a list of brains and want to know the price of them you no longer need to do a getObject and an adapter lookup to get that price.  The price is directly in the searchResults of the portal_catalog.
  This needs a reinstall btw.  And you should rebuild the catalog afterwards to get the most benefit out of it.
• And a second from Maurits: When you make an item payable, getpaid.core fires an event.  I added an event handler to PloneGetPaid that is subscribed to that event. This makes sure that the changed item gets reindexed.  That is handy for the first change above.  And in Plone 3 there is the object_provides index for which this also helps.
• Issue 152 was fixed, thanks Lucie and Maurits for working that out. This should keep the "payable" tab happy in both Plone 3 and 2.5. 
• Chinese translation was submitted by Adam

• PloneFormGen and GetPaid integration is available in the repository at http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/getpaid-formgen . This product allows two ways of making a formgen form: 1) create a cart from a single page or 2) create a cart and checkout from a single page. Have a look at this product (based on the way the Salesforce.com adapter for PFG works)! It is now in at least one production site...thanks to Daniel and Horacio for making this happen!
  

• A patch to fix issue 174 has been created by Robert (Jamie) and will be added to trunk shortly. This will allow anonymous users who register as part of checkout to keep the contents of their cart.
  
• Restructuring the svn repository: now that we have a proliferation of products in the GetPaid space, releasing has become challenging with just tagging the whole bunch. Restructuring so each product has its own trunk, branches, tags will enable separate lifecycles to be in play.
  
• Eggs on pypi: finally...
• New viewlet spots on the checkout wizard to allow easy registration of information collection boxes (or whatever) in those spots, as opposed to overriding the checkout. 
• Refinement of the PloneFormGen + GetPaid integration so it plays nicely with Salesforce.com + PFG integration. Also, configurable salesforce.com integation with regular GetPaid checkout.