[geeklog-devel] GSoC 2010 idea - E-Commerce/Shopping Cart plugin

[Randy Kolenko]

Keep in mind, cart extensions such as ubercart have  many, many, many,
many (did I say Many yet) users and thus people willing to support it.

Your best bet may be to do some sort of integration of an existing and
well established cart so that you're not blindsided with security issues
that are bound to arise from this.  Just my $0.02.

 

-randy

 

 

 

From: Ramindu Deshapriya [mailto:rasade88 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:50 AM
To: Geeklog Development
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] GSoC 2010 idea - E-Commerce/Shopping Cart
plugin

 

Thanks Vinny!

 

I was thinking of looking at a few shopping cart extensions written for
other CMS's, e.g. Ubercart for Drupal and VirtueMart for Joomla, and
getting an idea of how they are integrated into the individual CMSs. Of
course, when building something similar for Geeklog, the security
considerations that are needed for any form of Geeklog development will
have to be paid extra attention to. 

 

As per the discussion with Dirk on the IRC channel:

Dirk was worried about how an extension such as a Shopping Cart Plugin
could be patched and updated along with new updates of Geeklog and to
secure the channels of communication opened by the plugin whenever a new
security threat develops. In my view, the only sure-fire way to ensure
the continuation of any opensource project needing a long-term
commitment is to get the help of the community. For this plugin, I plan
to build up a community of a predefined number of developers (I was
thinking at least 3 lead developers), of which I will also be a member,
who will be on-call to provide any patches/bug fixes/updates. That way
we can ensure the continuation of the project after GSoC. I will include
this within the scope of my project, and clearly define how I plan to
build up this community within the project proposal.

Any ideas regarding this?

 

Thanks!

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com>
wrote:

 Ramindu,

 

I'm glad you've taken an interest in the e-commerce project. We have not
defined the requirements very clearly, but our thought was that an
existing (GPL) e-commerce or shopping cart program could be incorporated
into a Geeklog plugin. Of course you'd have to overlay Geeklog's
security model and implement the plugin API. That would allow
products/services to available based on user/group permissions and allow
the entire thing to be integrated into a Geeklog site.

 

I'd suggest spending some time exploring Geeklog, with emphasis on how
the security/permissions model works.

 

As for specific requirements, they haven't been well defined for any of
the ideas on the brain storming page. That places a bit more of a burden
(and added flexibility) on you to define the project's goals in your
application.

 

Let me know if you have any further questions.

 

-Vinny

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Ramindu Deshapriya
<rasade88 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am an undergraduate of Information Technology at the University of
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and I have 2 years' experience working with PHP. I
have worked on Content Management Systems such as Joomla as well,
developing extensions according to PEAR standards. I was interested in
working on an opensource CMS as a GSoC 2010 project, and Geeklog caught
my eye. As I have some knowledge developing e-commerce applications
using PHP, I think I will be able to develop a suitable plugin for
Geeklog that will allow e-commerce functions such as online funds
transfer and online purchases possible. I am currently studying the
development tutorials for Geeklog and hope to contribute to the bug
tracker soon.

Any feedback you could provide on the feasibility/usefulness of this
project and on any specific requirements that you would like to see
included within the plugin would be appreciated.

 

Thank You!


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Yours Truly,
Ramindu Deshapriya.


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