0.9.6 – what’s next
Last night I finally released ZenMagick 0.9.6. While I am not 100% satisfied I still think it is a good release.
Upgrading might be a bit tedious this time, due to the many changes to form field names. However, using the default theme should give you some idea about what to do.
My wish for this release is that it will generate more reactions than the last – and I am not only interested in positive response. Every bug report is better than nothing at all.
Like always I’ve got already a few things lined to work on now. Sometimes it’s actually quite hard to restrain myself in order to finish a release rather than adding and adding…
First of all there is the (not final) list of services to add to core. In addition I’ve got currently a list of the following items, but nothing is final yet:
- finish new cart and shipping code (plus ajax and cleanup [shippnig in cart and checkout ajax])
- finish some plugins
- easier plugin enable/disable – more admin ajax
- widget review
- more framework work
- setUrlMappingInfo – rework and finalize
- admin migration?
Also, I hope to tackle a few more items from the visions page.
Enjoy
I really impress your work and really wondering why do you still stick with Zencart? Why not just make ZenMagicK a fork of ZenCart instead. That would be easier for user to install and use your software. I’m pretty sure if you do that, ZenMagicK will be very popular.
Comment by Question — June 9, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
A good question that seems to come up more often these days.
I like to think that perhaps Zen Cart 2.0 will remedy a lot of the things that made me write ZenMagick. From that point of view it would make sense to wait at least until then.
On the other hand, zen-cart already declared ZenMagick a fork (and kicked it of their contributions list). That means ZenMagick is a fork and all I do right now is to save some bandwidth by allowing people to download separately
Another, more important point, though, is that this way round it allows to install ZenMagick on top of an existing zen cart installation with all the mods and tweaks intact.
I guess in the long run this is what is going to happen, in particular should Zen Cart 2.0 do not fulfill the high expectations everyone has got. Then it might make sense to stick with the latest 1.3.x release and take it from there.
BTW: This is actually a point on the visions list mentioned in the original post…
Comment by DerManoMann — June 10, 2009 @ 9:47 am
You are a prodigious worker, thanks for all the hard work. It looks to have paid off (big) with this version 0.9.6 which is a most excellent release! It would be great to see the ZenMagick get lots of people to get interested in. Maybe the Zen Cart 2.0 release delay will give a large group of people more faith in your software which is already taking advantage of OOP.
Comment by R. Wilber — June 29, 2009 @ 10:15 pm
Thanks a lot.
If you (or anyone reading my blog) want to help, you are most welcome. It’s hard to say what is most important, but I am sure blogging/tweeting about ZenMagick would help a lot.
I often see searches for reviews about ZenMagick, so positive feedback is definitely a plus
or other reviews sites would help. I suppose for a wikipedia ZenMagick is perhaps still too small, though :/
Also, writing about it on places like digg
Then again, it’s your choice, so any help/support is appreciated.
PS: Doesn’t look like you are using ZenMagick on your site, tse, tse…
Comment by DerManoMann — June 29, 2009 @ 11:22 pm