Magento DevBlog - Page 3

During the month of March, we ran our first distributed contribution day, and we saw some new faces at the top of our contributors’ leader board. We also continued to make great progress with all our GitHub repositories thanks, to the community’s help.

February saw the start of our new initiative: monthly Community Engineering live streams. We also continued to make great progress with all our GitHub repositories, thanks to the community’s help.

In my first post about Community Collaboration in Magento, I touched on the community’s tireless bug-squashing and gave an overview of how the Magento Community Team processes pull requests (PRs). In this post, I will dig a little deeper into how you, as members of the community, can contribute. I will also go behind the scenes of the Magento 2 repository.

The Instant Purchase module contribution by Creatuity is an excellent example of community initiative. Creatuity took risks on their own and implemented the whole module from scratch without being certain whether it would be accepted to core.

This module allows all merchants on the Magento 2 platform to offer a streamlined, single touch process by which customers can make purchases. This feature utilizes the Braintree vaulted credit card method that’s native to Magento 2, allowing logged-in users to place an order with a single touch that’s billed and shipped to the default information already stored on their account.

Magento Community Engineering team is working together with Magento Community starting February 2017. It has been busy seven months for all of us, and together, we achieved great results.

Contributions to the Magento Open Source or Magento Commerce is the best way to give back to the Magento community, it helps to have constant improvement of the framework, keep it up to date with the development tools, best practices. To recognize the efforts, Magento is putting in place a program that will track and allow rewarding Magento Solution Partners for their contributions. Magento will keep track of every pull request which comes from the partner and partners with the best track record of contributions will be specifically promoted by Magento and have a variety of benefits available through the Magento Solution Partner Program. This will provide better visibility on the partners’ landscape in the community and access to the promotion during Magento events.