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[tmbiz]

Hi,
first thank you for the work on this new version which change dramatically from the olver versions.

I'm working currently on the development of an online shop, with a lot of customized features, so I decided to move on OSC 3, because the framework is much more powerful.

I started by the features that will be personnal to my project, and not chance to be developed in standard, but for the standard features as user, order, payment, shipping... before to develop on my own, I think it's better to get it from the official release.

I read a lot of post and you mentionner (developer team), that a version will include soon user features...

Is it possible to get some details about the features that will be implemented, the progess in % and approxmidate date for the release.

Cause, I didn't find any roadmap. So I perfectly understand that you have a lot of work to do, but a roadmap will avoid to ask everytime the same question about the release date, and will also allow developers to be confident about OSC3. Cause for new online shop (non standard one) with customized options, I think it's better to adopt directly the new framework otherwise it will implicate to develop another time all the modules done. That's why for new project without visibility it's quite difficult to know if we have to adopt OSC3 framework or just choose another open source solution...

Thx by advance for some information.

Regards,
Thibaut

[Mark Evans]

The roadmap can be seen at http://countdown.oscommerce.com/index.php?article=roadmap

In short, there is a lot of work to do on 3.0 and it will take a while, if your a developer then why not help out

[tmbiz]

Thx for the answer. But the roadmap is quite large, when reading a fully working version can be either in 2 months or in december 2011.
Also, it's quite confuse, the OSC3 Alpha which is completely different has the same name of the new version. Why keep two same number for two different version?
A roadmap like this will be more helpfull http://www.oscommerce.com/community/roadmap

If you want some help, I think it's better you do a global announce, with what feature has to be developed....
Open Cart has a good roadmap which is collaborative, with assigned actions... http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=feature/roadmap
The way to go fast keeping an open source e-commerce solution alive with a lot of releases, is maybe to have a transparent communication and set objectives, cause otherwise it's quite difficult to federate a community.

Currently, the work is really good, but the feature is much more close to symphony, zend framework, cake or other php mvc framework, than ecommerce solution

Edited by tmbiz, 18 April 2011, 13:11.