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[dreamscape]

I believe they / we have a right to at the very least ask if there is an ETA for the mod

Software ETA's ultimately do more harm than good. If there is one thing that you can count on, it is that ETA's always slip when vendors give them out. That is why some software vendors, myself included, don't give out ETAs. It just causes everyone grief when they are inevitably disappointed that the ETA has slipped yet again.

I can however give a brief roadmap of how I plan for the release to go down:

1. The first release will be a public beta. Everyone interested can and should try it out on a test install of Zen Cart.
2. Depending on the outcome of the public beta, then a 2nd beta may be called for.
3. And from there it will be a short step to releasing a stable production worthy version

[voltage]

I understand your point on ETA's and its well taken. Maybe just periodic progress updates would be good enough . . .

You're absolutely right many of us have contributed and that's exactly it...contributed (it's a free will offering). Completely different than a purchase/commercial transaction. Yes! we contributed to bring the project to completion but it's not the same thing as hiring Josh to do the work.

I disagree 100% with this statement. Nearly everyone who "contributed" did with the intention of receiving something in return for their money. It was intended to be a commercial transaction. We weren't contributing money as a thank you for Dreamscapes hard work. We spent the funds that he stated it would take in order to finish the project. We give him 'X' and he'll give us 'Y'. This is COMPLETELY different than money that is contributed to zencart. This money is donated to encourage ongoing development but without a specific object in return.

Now you personally may not have seen it from this point of view, but I would dare to say that the majority of us saw this as a form of a business transaction.

[BlessIsaacola]

You and all your rights! So what if Dreamscape gives and ETA of 12/1 and then he delivers 3/1/07. Are you happier that you have an ETA that is missed? All I was trying to say is not about right or not right is the fact that some of us know Josh and the contribution he's made to this forum in the past. The post some of you were making almost seem like people are questioning whether he is working on this thing or not.

My point is whoever knows Dreamscape on this forum would never question whether he will deliver or not. Yes, people contributed (myself included) in expectation that we will get something back but I am willing to be patient to see what develops.

All the barrage of request of updates in less than 1-2 weeks of the fund closing is a bit unrealistic.

I am not asking for anyone to agree with me just expressing my view which I assume is okay. It's in your perogative to disagree with me 100% and that's perfectly fine!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

[BlessIsaacola]

Voltage, I know you contributed towards the project but does someone who didn't contribute have any rights as well to ask for when the project will be delivered?

[voltage]

I agree with you. I apologize to Dreamscape if my comments were at all offensize. I'll be patient.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[SarahL]

to be honest - its actually more annoying to login and get you guys bickering about it all!!

Dreamscape - I don't know you from the forums, but progress reports are always welcome :) and is generally a good thing - I am happy with no ETA although I have to say that I am not happy waiting 6 months or a year for something, but if you are talking within a few months time frame (? no idea) then I am happy sitting back and letting you get on with it.

As I don't know you and no one really asked and you haven't really said its still a tad up in the air

[schoolboy]

Let's move on... Every user of Zencart is grateful for the input of all the experts - whether they earn a living from their work or wish to remain philanthropic. At the end of the day, we (people that run e-shops using zencart) are eternally grateful to ALL of you and (where possible), will make donations / contributions for the time and intellectual capital that has gone into such an amazing product.

All of us know (or SHOULD know), that OpenSource cannot guarantee specific performance and we use the product entirely at our own risk. If people are not prepared to accept this fundamental condition of use, then they should avoid OpenSource and buy commercial software.

The sheer power and flexibility of Zencart makes it (for me at least) worth the wait for updates to mods, tweaking of core code and the release of new versions. It would be appropriate for all users of this product to recognise that the vast majority of people who devote time to dev work on Zencart, do so in their spare time, sometimes at the expense of other things they'd like to be doing (such as spending time with family), so let's all support their efforts and be glad that they're around to make their contributions.

At the same time, there is nothing wrong with experts selling their time and expertise - as long as it's an agreed transaction between two parties. There have been occasions when I desperately needed expert help, and I was quite happy to pay for it.

Now: my question... I loaded up Ultimate SEO and got it working in minutes, without any hitches. I have noticed, however, that it seems not to like to work with the EZpages CHAPTERS function. Without the mod, the PREVIOUS / NEXT buttons on a chapterised section perform as they should. However, after loading Ultimate SEO, these buttons are a little confused.

This is such a minor issue, so I don't consider it a problem. Even the most stupid customers on our shop will see that there are hyperlinks to other pages in the chapter in the accompanying boxed menu.

[BlessIsaacola]

There is a solution to the EZpages problem you described. I do not have time to flip to the pages right now but I thought I'd let you know if you have the time the solution is on one of the pages. Alternatively you can do a few search with EZPages as the keyword and perhaps you can limit your search to just this thread.

[rwoody]

I know Dreamscape is working on a new release, but I have SEO URLs working on 1.3.5, perfectly; however I use Google's Site Map, and I'm wondering if anyone has been able to get the site map to convert the URLs from the dynamic to the new output of the SEO Friendly URLs? I've read through this entire thread and I saw one other person had the same issue, but I did not see the resolution... I'm about blind from re-reading - so If I missed it could someone point it out to me?

Thanks

[avansant]

I am getting

Fatal error: Call to undefined function gzdeflate() in /....

in my 1.3.5 zen installation. I saw another thread mentioning this but didn't understand how they fixed it. I used the latest install info (skipped direction #2, added the predone files, etc.) Can someone help?

Thanks!

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