i18n

Just recently we have had two translations added to the product - French (from Lucie and Maurits) and now Chinese (from Adam Tang)!

That makes our list for languages shipping with the project: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, French, Chinese (and English)

Thanks for making things even better! We are inching towards the release here and minor issues getting wrapped up!!  

<cheerleader>Whadda we need? Deployments! Whendaweneed 'em? Now! </cheerleader>

The great thing about GetPaid reaching a stable state is that it is getting used! And that is creating lots of great effects:

• Bugs are getting found and fixed (thanks to Javimansilla, Lucielejard!)
• Extensions of the product are being created to give GetPaid new functionality
• Improvements are being integrated that make the core better.

This week we had great news about some of this additions, including:

• News of a French translation in the works by Lucie Lejard!
• The creation of a discounts extension by Lucie at Six Feet Up. Six Feet Up announced the project this week and the code is already in the public repository, though still in the works. Eventually it will be packaged as an extension for GetPaid.
  
• The email notifications system got improved once folks started finding out about using (and overriding it). Now it is easier to use your own templates for email notifications.
  
• New payment processor: in the works is integration with Paymentech, the Chase bank processor. Look out for getpaid.paymentech soon too...
  
• Additions of new documentation to the GetPaid documentation on plone.org

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!

ThePlone sprint will happen on i18n of GetPaid for Plone on August 9, 2007. It will include training on internationlization and then a day of collaborative work on GetPaid internationalization. Other interesting during the conference Plone training (a site admin/content management one AND an intermediary developer training!) and many Zope/Plone/Python talks.

Call for testing reminder!