Magento

Roy,
As a end user & developer here I’d like to first tell you I think your doing a great job with communicating with us. Your enthusiasm for the project shows, and that encourages me to really look into putting time and energy in helping magento into “business shape”!

I do plan to beta test the platform myself, and I hope I can contribute to the community site with what I find. 

As far as your comments about not using the platform in production, Thank you for your honesty. I can tell your concern.  But judging from the great job you guys have done in marketing, I HIGHLY expect many people to still take the risk with using the beta in production. Most developers are highly stubborn.

SO… The brightside to this is this SHOULD further bug fixes and activity on the community site. I’ll be active in helping share the load.

Go Go Magento!

Happy August.

Also… Once Magento becomes available..

It’d be great to post the KNOWN bugs and issues. We all know its a Beta, so we expect some imperfections -=1 .  It’s a great product regardless.

But I think a documented list of the bugs the Magento team has found could help further direct us developers attentions to know which areas to focus on fixing.

This could also help drill home your point about it being a PREVIEW version. A Bug Fix Roadmap so people can know a more detailed progress.

Just a thought. Keep up the work.

I have a dedicated server ready and waiting for me to install the Magento Beta so I can start playing with it, and reporting bugs.

Go Go Magento!

Roy,
In making my decision whether or not to deploy in production, the main issue becomes speed of iteration. If we come across an earth shattering bug, will it probably be fixed in an incremental release in a week, a month? or will it be fixed in beta 2, 9 months or whatever from now?

We have no problem kicking the tires, so to speak, so long as we aren’t 200 miles from the next gas station.

Keep up the good work.

- Doug

Nick - We plan on having a list of known issues published and provide access to the bug list (although not initially but soon after launch). Thanks for kind words!

Doug - We will work fast initially to nail all the critical issues right away. You can expect weekly releases in the first few weeks until things settle down.

Good idea making this post as I’ve seen people ask the same questions over and over, even though they were answered in the comments.  Now you can just refer them here

Highly looking forward to testing the first beta and providing feedback and submitting bugs.

Good question above about tracking bugs.

I am not the greatest php developer but I am a decent graphic artist.
I will be willing to help with any graphical needs you might need in the future.

Roy, I would like to personally thank you and the varien team for creating a new e-commerce solution.

Just imagine the kick in the pants the world economy will get when thousands of new internet sales websites spring up and allow the average Joe to present their wares in a clean and professional manner.

Go magento!

@John

Dedicated server here ready as well. -=1

I’m going to be building a new site starting this week, one version in Magento and one in ZenCart. Hopefully Magento will become more stable, and I can get rid of the ZenCart and use magento in production.

Zencart hardly seems production to me even now… but hey What’s the other option? OScommerce?

ill be here waiting, also ready to test, thanks for keeping us updated as usual

I’m also standing by, waiting to get my hands on the Beta and starting to test. All the best for the final spurt this week!

Love to get my hands on the Beta to test it out.

We are also standing by, waiting to get our hands on the Beta and starting to test it. Great work. Go Go

I’m ready for i18n testing

I can’t wait any longer

I´m also waiting for this KILLER Beta Release ......

[...] die einzige Infoquelle. Das dürfte sich Freitag ändern, wenn das Beta erscheint. Im letzten Blogpost wurde das Datum nochmal bestätigt. Chancen sind also groß, dass es wirklich eingehalten [...]

I never had a longer august in my whole life ; (

Give me a taste of the hottest php project 2007… - I’m realy nervous…

Can’t wait to test this out. Hopefully it can be integrated well with Textpattern.

Hi, i’m french, i’ve a dedicated server ready for Magento Beta, and i"ve also a real project of e-commerce.
thanks

I am a Senior Business Analyst and former Tech Writer and programmer. I have a dedicated server that I will be running Magenta on and I am offering my services and those of my internet consulting firm DBFHCO.com to assist you with user documentation. I am also willing to discuss technical documentaton if that is in your plans. Of course I am offering these services for free as a service to the community.

I believe in your project and we would really like to see it gtow in to something great. I know you guys could use additional resources right now so I am offering my own.

I would love to try it out, been waiting for this release for a long time. I’m so happy to see this high-end open source project come together.

I would LOVE to use it.

So over joomla.

[...] Magento angekündigt wurde, wurde jetzt noch einmal bekräftigt, dass noch im August (31.) eine Beta-Version verfügbar sein [...]

OK Roy,
When will this be available. I have a 3.2TB of storage .. can do lots of UNIX testing ...

I love to try it out , test it and add my contributions to development as well.

Hey Faruq Hunter aka “Senior Business Analyst” and “Tech Writer”. First thing you would probably have to do is spell Magento right hmm?

hmm
Kameko in his spelling o is replaced by a But his offer are good to look at

How does one become part of the beta testing team?

Having been using Trading Eye (both PHP and Cold Fusion versions) for the past few months it will be interesting to see how Magento compares.

Has there been mention on the templating engine being used in Magento? Sorry if this has been previously answered but I haven’t seen anything about it yet.

Anyone know what engine it uses, or is it custom?

Yes...I’d like to also take part in the Beta testing

For everyone inquiring about beta testing ... Beta1 will be available later this week. Once you download and install it you can begin testing. Bugs can be reported on the community site through a form (under the Community tab). Your help is appreciated - thank you.

I would love to beta test Magento as i’ve been looking for a better alternative to things like oscommerce, zencart, & xcart.

can’t wait for the release so i can start developing on it.

Count me in. I’ve been developing osC and it’s other braches for some time now. And also I’m very interested about the end-user reactions.

I am ready to test this thing till i am blue in the face! Bring it on.

Very excited and cant wait to get my hands on this new eCommerce solution, especially since it has an integrated CMS

count me in. I can’t wait to see what it can do.

I’m really impressed so far, I can’t wait to try out this beauty! Please count me in!

Very excited. I’ve been keeping an eye on progress… I’d be happy to run some beta testing and provide feedback and input

Craig

It would be awesome if the beta would solve all the probs that i have with xt-commerce - hello magento, goodbye all others.

I’m always on the lookout for new open source developments, so count me in

3 days and counting…

they located at pacific time zone. :D it’s not 31th yet.

Hi Roy

I would like to do the beta testing.

Thanks

Tony

it’s the 31st where I am.  no notification.  I wonder if it is going to happen…

Don’t worry it will.
What i’m suspecting is at 8:00 or whenever Varien opens it’ll be released.

Austin ... We are still here (at the office) in full force. We’ve been here quite a while with no plans to leave soon

Oh, ok.
well do you have like an estimate of @ what hour it’ll be released?

That’s reassuring to hear.  10.45pm

come on guys .. does it matter when to release it? we need a good software but not just a on-time software. I can wait and there is no point to rush for me. :D

It´s MAGENTO DAY.............

a bit like X-Mas.........

Hi Juan

T minus 10 hours ... aaaand counting ...

Hehe today is THE day !

Come on Roy…
Let’s go the magento party !!!

It’s August 31st, 2007 3:13 pm now in Vietnam. Waiting for test ...

Can’t wait to see the Beta! Just remember kids : Roy Rules!

It seems like you have certainly generated a great buzz.  I am looking forward to the beta and seeing what you have come up with. Will keep in mind it is a beta.

I’m eagerly waiting for the 1st release of Magento. I want to feel e-commerce application with real MVC pattern.

where is the Beta ?

hey Roy, It’s now August 31, 22:41 in Melbourne Australia, where is the beta?

Where can we donate money to you?

I’m waiting…

In Paulo (Brazil) it is only 10:10 AM…

It is August 31, 18:10 in Karachi, Pakistan.

Still looking for the beta. I wish you good luck

its coming guys ... stay tuned

i’m waiting from italy…

it is 5 pm in Nairobi

oo oo

OOOH ooh OOH its coming.............. look .............