[Ibssopensource-developers] Store Tasks

[Chris P. <cr...@at...>]

Hello Everyone,

    I want to start by saying I appologize for not making this a 
priority, but I have been rather busy.  Lance has also been very busy. 
 I have contacted a few of you that are on this list, and some off, and 
now I am interested in what tasks everyone would like to take on.  
    I have been working on payment verification.  For those who are not 
sure what I am talking about, you can find examples at codesine.com. 
 Currently I am working on Authorize.net.  I am also integrating it into 
the store so the administrator can select which processor they are going 
to use and enter the important information such as processor user id and 
password.  Codesine is working on a total e-commerce solution which will 
do something very similar to this.  There solution is a pay solution, 
however, as are the credit card processing modules.  One thing that has 
come to mind is that the store is going to need some sort of http 
handler for things like SSL for those stores that the administrator 
would like to keep all the sensitive data in their database.  There are 
solutions which will not need this.(if you are unsure of what I am 
talking about, please go to Verisign's site and read over their very 
valuable information on these topics)

    I think it would be a great idea for those of you reading this to 
send back to the list what you have or will be doing.  This will allow 
us to avoid everyone working on the same thing, or changing too many 
things that would affect something that others have changed also.  A 
good start to a group project like this is to see what others have 
already done or what their area of expertise is.  Then we can move onto 
who is doing what and the assigning of individual tasks.  This will 
allow us to work as a team.  I have not touched any of the code from the 
original download except I have added a link to my admin section on the 
main admin page, everything else I have done has been pretty independent 
from the core.  

    As for now, unless any information stating otherwise is received 
from Lance, I would stick to following the guidelines Lance has set for 
us in all of his previous code.  Like I have said in a previous email I 
prefer the VS with codebehind enviroment myself, but everything I am 
working on is done within the specs setup in the original release of the 
product.  Perhaps at a later point I will move the code into this 
enviroment, but any work I am doing for the group will stay in the 
current format until Lance tells me otherwise.  

    Sorry for the long email, but I had much to say.  Please post to the 
list what you are doing, or if you are shy you can email me at 
cr...@at... and I will mail the list saying someone is working on 
this and that.  Just an added reminder, that anything in the open source 
enviroment like this should have extremely minimal restrictions on the 
usage of the code and the receiving members of the code should never do 
anything to take the credit of others.  Always give people their due 
credit, and never offer code to others that you don't want them using.

Thanks everyone,
Chris