It’s been an interesting month for Magento. You may have seen the recent flurry of posts around the future of Magento Open Source, and talk of a posible fork. It started with the post “The Future of Magento” by a group of well respected and long time community members. This has already been followed up by posts by Adobe and the Magento Association.
This month’s Developer Monthly is dedicated to sharing some of the interesting community perspectives I have read on this important topic - the topic is too big to ignore.
As a long time Magento community member I care about the open source version and what it represents for the merchants using it. So while I don’t pretend to know everything about the current debate, I have been working with Magento since the first beta release and wanted to make a few comments about open source in general and Magento in particular.
tl;dr
No matter the scenario with hindsight better communication is always welcome so let’s get / keep talking.
If you want a quick high level summary in video format I suggest this one. Talesh jumped on a plane to Poland to get some answers directly from the people involved.
Magento has announced that in 2022 there will be a big step towards simplifying the upgrade process by reducing the complexity and frequency of upgrades.
What if you wanted to access a class directly from a ViewModel, with minimal effort? This article from Mark Shust expores his idea of a “Pass-through ViewModel” in Magento - a magic pseudo-class which just drops calls back to the originating class.
