Close in favour of wpcv-woo-civi-integration ??

[JoeMurray]

@mecachisenros I see you have been contributing to https://github.com/WPCV/wpcv-woo-civi-integration/graphs/contributors as well as this repo https://github.com/mecachisenros/woocommerce_civicrm/graphs/contributors. Can you detail the differences between the two integrations and reasons for maintaining both rather than focussing our efforts on wpcv-woo-CiviCRM-integration ? The latter seems to have had a lot more commits in last 6 months. @christianwach what are your thoughts on facilitating collaboration?

[christianwach]

@JoeMurray None of us have heard from Andrei for a few months now - it seems as though he's retired from CiviCRM/WordPress coding and has moved on to other things.

I can explain the history of these repos however...

Andrei didn't want to continue to be solely responsible for maintaining and developing this plugin, so I created the WPCV account to facilitate responsibility being shared between a few folks with an interest in doing so (initially @kcristiano @danaskallman @mecachisenros and myself). FWIW I also plan to move some of my plugins over to that account at some point, for similar reasons.

Andrei pushed the code from here to the new repo as a remote to maintain the commit history. If you look at the contributor graph on the WPCV repo you'll see that it is identical to this one's up to the point where I started working on it.

The net result is that I took the current state of this repo as my starting point and continued development over there with a view to getting the plugin ready for submission to the WordPress Plugin Directory. FWIW, this plugin would not have stood any chance at all of being accepted because:

• The WordPress Plugin Directory has strict rules about naming which this plugin contravenes.
• This plugin is... um... buggy in so many ways and doesn't really do what it says it should.

So the Integrate CiviCRM with WooCommerce plugin is this plugin, but better. It has a migration page which will convert the existing metadata to the new schema, so there's really no reason not to move over to Integrate CiviCRM with WooCommerce.

I hope to have time this week to submit it to the WordPress Plugin Directory, though there may still be a stumbling block due to its AGPL license. We'll see what the WordPress folks say.

[JoeMurray]

Thanks very much for the helpful background. We'll be moving this over.

[christianwach]

Oh, one more thing @JoeMurray - Andrei hasn't been active on GitHub since April 27, 2021... and since he's the sole admin of this repo, it can't be made read-only or modified. I guess the only option is to have a prominent issue that points people to Integrate CiviCRM with WooCommerce instead.