VW shopping cart & VW reviews? Why on earth?
I am not understanding the rationale behind building a shopping cart and a reviews system in VW. Its not that these are not nice features, but it comes at a time when we are waiting for a Gold release of VW4 for years now. There are many popular feature requests that would greatly enhance VW4, but those have not been implemented yet. VW4 still offers no compelling reason to upgrade from VW3.
I'm sorry to perceive this move as negative while there must have gone a lot of effort into the projects. But I really don't understand why. Is it because you need these functions for your own site?
Is Vaultwiki going to shift focus towards a shopping cart instead?
Will there be an option to download VW without the bloat of a shopping cart and reviews? It seems to me that this package may add unwanted weight to the software.
Several VW customers invested thousands in the creation of reviews software with a shopping cart. After 6 months of development its now in beta release.
We would probably not have invested if we knew that VW was going to implement reviews and cart. Or maybe you would not have invested manhours into the project if you knew that the functionality was already underway. I'm not sure. The functionality is not in any VW milestone.
Could you share your rationale behind the decision to develop a shopping cart and reviews system, while the wiki system is far from ready?