I agree! I have been using eTailer which was clearly abandoned, but it has survived 4 upgrades. I'm currently using Zope 2.5.1 and eTailer is still plugging away. I don't know if eTailer would be considered a "good" product, but it does what I need so its good for me :-). Not sure what happened to the authors (I think they moved away from "free" and are trying to make money with a spiced up eTailer). I wish they were still working on it because eTailer was the only commerce product worth using. I also think the following should be implemented...
Make the products discussible and ratable. Send email to the author when new comments arrive (batch the comments, of course).
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From: Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 20:45:30 +0200 To: Milos Prudek <milos.prudek@tiscali.cz> Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] abandonware and new.zope.org
Milos Prudek writes:
An idea for new.zope.org: encourage people not to abandon popular projects. ... Another approach would be to mark products "may be abandoned" if no release was published in six months, and "abandoned" if no release in 12 months. Good products do not need to be released on a regular base, only when something happens that breaks them...
Just my idea. As you see above, I do not like your idea.
Propose something softer or harder, but IMHO some solution should be implemented. Make the products discussable and ratable. Send email to the author when new comments arrive (batch the comments, of course).
Dieter
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