Feature List of EOS

[David M. Graham]

One of the best places to go to see EOS's feature list growing or to make it grow, is the wiki.  I'm much more inclined to support a feature when store owners and interested support/programming vendors put some time into design up front.

Another location involved will be the issue tracker, as we become better at posting the issues we are addressing before we code them.

Mantis maintains project road maps and change logs based on posted issues and issue states.  This can give a pretty accurate picture of where development has been, is and will be - provided we use the features.  This is made more powerful by our use of svn hook scripts to automate posting of commit messages to issues impacted by the commit.

Another interesting Mantis feature that the community can use to guide feature selection is the sponsorship system.  Putting cash down on features of importance to you can help speed development and is a powerful indicator of just how important a feature is.  The system also allows the community to spread the cost of development.   Traditionally osCommerce based feature development has depended on programmer charity, or single source custom projects.  This could allow for rapid deployment of feature sets that are useful by broader sections of the community.

David

[wroughtec]

Great work Tom and David I am sure the feature list will continue to grow. May be I should have asked what do people want to see in EOS so we have a nice topic for people to post their suggestions.

EOS I think will make a nice addition to the market and the fact it is being developed so quickly is testament to the developers.

I think anyone who has used CRE Loaded, osCommerce etc. and has felt left behind EOS will make a good alternative.

[zip1]

Within each release is a document directory, in this directory is a file called listoffeatures_Eos.txt. Unfortunately I fell behind on keeping this list up to date. Hopefully by the next release I will have this file uptodate.

[David M. Graham]

Yes, it will.  That is a document we plan to be working on in the near future.

There are some recent developments in osCommerce which may affect it drastically in the near future as well.

With the oscanswers.com site morphing into oscommerceproject.org and assuming active development of osCommerce under the same name! some new options are opening up.   osCommerce 2.2 is pronounced as complete by this team, and they are beginning osCommerce 3.0 based development.

Also, we are involved in a project to DOCUMENT osCommerce 3.0 which will affect our stopping point on EOS 1.0 development and the stages we use to get to EOS 2.0.

David

[wroughtec]

EOS has come a long way since it started.

Would be nice to start hearing some of the features it does have or plan to have and which bits are felt better for addons which will come later.