Hello AISweb,
thanks for your thank. Yes I see that you guys are frustrated and it hurts me, guys, really. VirtueMart is my life and thats not just a phrase.
I work since the last 3 years fulltime for VirtueMart. I exactly created what you purpose. We found a company and earn now money directly with the core, but not really a lot. Our daily bread we get due
http://extensions.virtuemart.net/. So if you want to support us, just buy every year, for every shop one extension. I like that more than a donation (we have to pay for both taxes, for donations in anycase, most people can use the shop taxfree).
I coordinate the core development and do it almost fulltime. Of course we had to create some extensions to be able to feed our families, so core development was slowed down a bit. But almost all of my extensions needed changes in the core, which are good for all 3rd party developers. They will see that the new customfield plugins will be a fun compared to the stuff we have in 2.0.16. We also gained some big players, which create 200 stores in a row or really big stores with 100k products already and we plan more than a million products.
But why we did not answer here? because we just overlooked it. We have a lot moderators and they are adviced to tell me threads with unsolved problems. It can happen very fast that a thread is on the third page even answered a day before. I check usually only the first page, because I should not answer all the time in the forum. It is impossible to write things like multiprices if you can only work 2 hours a day, spending the other 10 in the forum.
And VirtueMart is a project, it is still not a company. Often the people create the solutions themself, check the last release notes
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=110743.0 and the credits. So instead of doing everything ourself, we hope that the community also takes part, that is the idea of opensource and a public project. So and how does this sound: "There are 5 people lamenting that something for an investment of 500 euro is not there, they want to make their living with it, their customers want to make their living with it, but 5 people dont have the idea to pay 500 euro for that feature and just spent it. "
There are other people, paying 200 euro that we integrate the mass reference to the core. Of course this speeds up development. If you think a bit about it and agree, I am happy. finally think about it, how much it is worth to change the ordering of some dropdowns. If you have less than 5 items in the dropdown the difference is almost nothing. How much things the shopowner to earn more?
Often they think they need this and that,.. a carousel,.. but studies showed that they should invest the energy in more important things. Like SEO, or performance.
The name of the company is on purpose not virtuemart, because I want to make clear that the project and the company are different things. The company just keeps the trademark and has even written in the constitution that it must support and protect virtuemart.
That means that all people here, except valerie and me are not payed to answer here or to create fixes. All the others do that because they like it. Of course there can be a financial gain to be moderator, because it is easier to get jobs. But not all of them are interested in this. JJK for example is just a shopowner who likes our community. So in the moment someone is lamenting about the community, he should ask himself what he is doing for the community. No one had the idea to write a pn to me asking what we could do?
and to underline:
I stand for the free princip. The core will always stay free.
and back to topic.
I fear I deleted the ordering of products in the table. I had no idea for what we could use it and it confused a lot devs, because of course we have the ordering of products related to a category. But not for it self. So we must add an ordering for the product itself, which is then working, if there is a parent id set.
Not a big deal, but I wont be able to write it for 2.0.16, because we wanna release tomorrow, birthday of vm2,.. 1 year released now.