Roadmap

[torvista]

Yes, this is a feature request from always, but more pertinent than ever. The elephant has been sat in the room for nearly four months, only two people can post anything relevant here and one is evidently indisposed, which hangs heavy. This is not a complaint but where to now, @Wilt?

[finkiki]

What happened to @drbyte ?

[torvista]

What happened to @drbyte ?

Evidently something serious, which is absolutely none of our business (but of great concern from a personal/private aspect), and so demands no explanation.

However it could be expected at this point that some comment be made about the project by someone more knowledgeable.

[scottcwilson]

If you are concerned about the project's future, I would encourage you to join me in helping support the work being done by Chris and Ian: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?228563-Support-the-Zen-Cart-Project!

[torvista]

That was at best, an ill-considered reply. Your point of view from where you are sitting is very different from the rest/few of us who still bother to contribute, and the thousands of users.

[zcwilt]

I understand peoples concern, and I will be open in saying that I haven't been contributing as much as I would like. Initially this was due to me starting a new job, but more recently due to me contracting covid and being pretty poorly. Not going to get into why other core members have not been here as that is their personal issues.

However, I've started to change the structure of how others can access github and will take advice from the community to ensure that going forward we are less reliant on founders.

I'm working on some ideas on how we move forward with the roadmap, but ask for some leeway here. Zen Cart has been part of my life for nearly 20 years from it's original fork from oscommerce and I still think we can move forward and challenge.

[g2ktcf]

Ian,

I want to take a moment to Thank you and all the founders for your efforts. And I really appreciate you posting this. It means a lot to us to see a path forward and I was getting worried to be honest.

I have been a user of Zen Cart for years. I am trying to push a bit deeper as I have needs for our store that are not addressed here. How much I can contribute is totally unknown...but I am trying!

Chris

[zcwilt]

Thanks all

Still working on making sure we let contributors have more access. Huge thanks to Scott Wilson, Cindy and others for taking ownership of the git processes etc.

The current plan is to get a 157d release out as soon as possible as we have a code freeze on that.

Then also to get out an alpha version of 158 for community testing and feedback so focus should be testing current 158 and identifying major bugs

[scottcwilson]

It will be great to have a version of Zen Cart that runs on PHP without logs. Very exciting.

Those who are interested in the content of Zen Cart 1.5.8 can look at the documentation here:

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/zencart/zencart/blob/v158/docs/whatsnew_1.5.8.html

Tickets we'd like to get closed before release are here:

https://github.com/zencart/zencart/labels/v158

[zcwilt]

https://github.com/zencart/zencart/discussions/4646

Hoping to get this over the line next weekend Then move on to a 158 alpha

[scottcwilson]

Closing. Please open conversations like this in Discussions rather than Issues moving forward.