Lessons learned while developing with Sylius

What we learned about Sylius and Open source in last 4 years

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1. Lessons learned while developing with Sylius Antonio Perić-Mažar, CEO @ Locastic
2. Antonio Perić-Mažar, mag. ing. comp. CEO, Co-Founder @ Locastic Co-Founder @ Shi# Conference So#ware developer, Symfony2 Open Source Contributor SFUGCRO www.locastic.com antonio@locastic.com @antonioperic
3. We help clients create amazing web and mobile apps (since 2011) www.locastic.com @Locastic Design and development agency Mobile development Web development UX/UI Training and Consulting Shi! Conference, Symfony Croatia
5. How it all started?
6. 4 years ago, Sylius v0.6.0 Talks: ezPublish and Sylius integration Sylius Meetup PHP Verona Unconference track WebCamp Ljubljana Lightning Talk
7. Our first project
8. We learned a lot We started a few times from the beginning BCs killed us Daily upgrades
9. Don’t reinvent the wheel but think twice!
10. Is the product ready for production? When will it be ready? Can you maintain it? Will it save you some time and money?
11. Roadmaps are not written in stone
12. Roadmap will be changed You are just a part of community and you cannot force it in your direction Sometimes you will wait for months to get roadmap updated
13. Project owner doesn’t think/care about your business
14. His product comes first Feature list is never final Be ready for big changes You should think about your business
15. Good Code doesn’t sell
16. Business owners don’t want to pay for good code Features are important Nice code won’t upgrade to 1.0.0.-alpha Do you have time and budget to build all what is missing?
17. You can learn from good code!
18. BDD TDD Symfony best practices Large project organisation
19. Contributing is hard
20. You need time and budget It is hard to do it while you are working on a project for clients It’s a good thing to do
21. Open Source is a good sales channel
22. Agencies and clients are following GitHub You can boost your visibility You can boost your skills
23. Networking is amazing
24. You will meet a lot of smart and cool people You will get some new partners You will learn a lot about communities and how they work
25. Sylius today
26. Locastic & Sylius
27. Better organisation More mature projects Clear roadmap
28. Great fit for small ecommerce projects Lack of features should be fixed with plugins eco system Great fit for large custom projects (if you have symfony developers in your team)
29. QA
30. www.locastic.com antonio@locastic.com @antonioperic Thank you