Entries For: August 2008

We are building on the momentum of last week's 2 day sprint and the previous Friday sprints in getting GetPaid super-charged. An amazing amount of cleanup, organizing and catchup is going on in the community right now - it is great to see (and Fridays are regular GetPaid sprint days now!).

We want to continue this momentum and engage new folks - while taking advantage of a great change to work together in person - at the Plone Conference in DC in October. We hope you will join us! If you are interested, please sing up at http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-conference-2008-dc/getpaid

As we refine more details, we will keep that page updated. In the meantime, you can get a sense of what we are working on at Friday sprints (still leveraging the http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/AugustSprint page for organizing.

First summary and warnings:

we are down to 62 issues open in tracker, about half of which have hte new metadata applied...and up to 738 downloads of getpaid tarball

WARNING: PloneGetPaid code has MOVED. It was eggified...

As a reminder, GetPaid is ZPL license and we hope that contributors will keep consistency in their packages.

Updates

• dennisharrison: getpaid.paypal: Working using by setting the config in python, need to make a configuration screen for it.  Trying to copy getpaid.googlecheckout, but get errors on local buildout, want to clear that up and continue on so I have a good template. I want to make the ipn responder not a content type and just have it in the site like googlecheckout does
• getpaid.simpletaxation: making a config screen for it now and going to import it into svn soon
• meteoroid: well, this is slightly related, i eggified the product, but i declared it as ZPL per whoever answered my question at the time.  that should be changed to BSD if that is proper. transformed the PloneGetPaid product to an egg. So you might want to put a warning about that. He put a readme (normally) about it...but not on this one. it is going to break things, because the product is no more at the same place
• AdamAtNCPC: I fixed issue 208 (gen_order.py). I made comments on issue 131 
• lucielejard: ok so I updated the buildout of normal getpaid and anonymous to remove the dependencies on ore.xd which have been removed. and also I updated the buildout to have the new address of the PloneGetPaid product which is now an egg
• cjj: i tagged more things in the issue tracker...fixed one state misspelling (closed an issue, yeah!)...tested googlecheckout and reported problems...reported bug on meteriod buildout and got the trunk buildout working...Also worked on a map of roles we need for the GetPaid community http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/GetPaidCommunityRoles . Appended notes to Tax wiki page at request of Adam.
• fairwinds: updating packaging and helping with pypi uploading. i've got about 4 or 5 packages left i think and then lucielejard and i will upload to pypi the packages, but wil finish this today.

Here is a partial list of updates from our standup meeting just now...includes people who were there and what we could remember :)

• Lucie: I updated the getpaid-buildout and the anonymous one so that they work again, now that ore.viewlet is no more accessible. I put a bunch of eggs in the cheeseshop and updated the getpaid recipe. Check out list of packages on pypi now!
  
• dunny: I have done a brief round up of overrides that I know about, gathered here http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/issues/detail?id=167
• dennisharrison: I am looking for a way to have getpaid accept that request and then make a notification
  
• meteoroid is working on a branch of the buildout, and will split 2.5 and 3.0
  
• cjjgetpaidsprint: i updated ohloh enlistments (they are still processing), implemented the metadata for issue tracker (see http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/ReorganizeIssueTracker ) and started tagging issues (still more to do,...some holes in the metadata).   i also added list of important issues to address on the sprint page and broke out list of translations needing updating
• FranGM updated Spanish translation for one file
• fairwinds: started discussions on proposals for additional abstraction of z3 interfaces so GetPaid could be used more broadly (ie with Grok, pure z3...), and had example of Ruby libs that do it well.

Plans for tomorrow's sprint:

Dennis: credits for store (ie user can buy credits and then shop with those)

• People to update the following translations:
  
• French
• German
• Italian
• Chinese
• Dutch
• More help on issues!
  

This morning is getting humming in #getpaid with activity as our 2-day remote sprint starts. Here's a checklist so you can find out how to pitch in:

[  ]  Morning stimulant (plenty of yerba mate here...CHECK!)

[  ]  Fresh checkout of GetPaid: https://getpaid.googlecode.com/svn/getpaid.buildout/trunk getpaid.buildout

[  ]  Clothing (optional...it's a remote sprint afterall ;)

[  ] You in #getpaid - needed!

So far this morning, we have:

- Fairwinds and Lucie: working on pypi uploads
- Dennis: working on Paypal IPN
- Me: updated ohloh, now updating Spanish translation

Later today I will be working with Gabrielle on the issue tracker.

Come on by and help out! Plenty to do.

Horacio Francisco Sebastián Durán Barrionuevo (aka perrito666) will give a talk on the quality and simplicity of GetPaid as a complete e-commerce solution at the 8th Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre (Regional Free Software Conference) in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 21, 2008.

Just wanted to remind you that we are sprinting in #getpaid tomorrow (Thurs) and Friday!

As opposed to the little Friday-afternoon-with-GetPaid-and-a-beer kinda sprints ;), this is time to get down and dirty and get some serious stuff done! (/me has even managed to keep the calendar almost free!)

Lucie is our awesome Sprint Goddess for the sprint and can help folks looking to get involved. We have some great work already in motion from the last sprints (see updates in this blog). We are headed towards the 0.7 release, so there is a good bit of work to go, so we hope you will help us in making the buildout easier, squashing bugs, adding/editing documentation, adding some polish and features, and getting ready for the next version of GetPaid! More info at http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/AugustSprint

Please join us on #getpaid . If you aren't there, you can always use this email list to figure out how to help!

Go sprinters go!Given that it is already Thursday in New Zealand (where we have some awesome GetPaid community members!), feel free to go ahead and start early :D

This came in over the weekend from Lucie...an update on the GetPaid recipe she has been working on in GetPaid sprints:

I started to create the getpaid recipe for the releases: https://getpaid.googlecode.com/svn/getpaid.recipe.release/trunk/

Mostly, I wanted to have it working with one egg for now. I ran the tests on it too and it seems to be correct.
Feel free to upload eggs to pypi (only the ones that need it) and to change their category too. I uploaded only getpaid.discount for now, since it was my test egg.

Also, feel free to update the recipe as you upload the eggs to pypi. The next time I'll work on it will be next Thursday.

It was a lively day in GetPaid channel today (#getpaid) as we had a variety of people sprinting in different times, timezones, and countries.

Update from GetPaid Sprint Day 2:

• Brasilian Portuguese translation got updated (ericof)
• Collective svn got cleaned out where some leftover GetPaid files were  (meteroid)   https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/PloneGetPaid/
• Updating setup documentation on plone.org (screenshots and new addons)
• Update Ohloh trunks urls to reflect svn refactoring (waiting for reports to run)
• Lucie advanced getpaid.recipe.release
• We are preparing for a 0.7.0 release and backport of a couple minor fixes to 0.6.1
• documentation update: readme, docs files, and the "setup" tutorial on plone.org

TODO :

• Get paypal IPN stuff from Dennis for Paypal goodness
• Get specs on payable content from Dennis and Dixond so we can build it already!
• Eggification
• Recipe completion
• More buildout goodness...reorganization (2.5 vs 3 versions)
  

After an untimely outage for the last couple of days due to hardware failure, a repository where components pulled into GetPaid's buildout were restored. Happy buildouting!

Also, please join us today for GetPaid Remote Sprint in #getpaid!

Chris Johnson of ifPeople will be giving a talk at the Plone Conference 2008 entitled "Ecommerce in Plone: Surveying the state of the art".  In addition to introducing GetPaid and how it works, the talk will feature a number of current ways GetPaid is being used in live sites, such as those seen in "Sites using GetPaid".