commerce 7.x-1.0-alpha1

This marks the first point release of Drupal Commerce, an alpha that includes all of the major core systems, some more mature than others. The product, product reference, line item, order, cart, and checkout modules have received a fair amount of attention but are by no means perfect. The payment and customer modules are more recent additions and could use a greater bit of love. The shippable product module is non-existent but will really just be a matter of implementing new fields for products and is not centrally important.

There is a brand new demonstration site that includes all the front-end features, including product display within the node context, the shopping cart, and checkout forms. This will be followed by an admin demo shortly, but in the meantime those at DrupalCon Copenhagen who want to give the backend a test drive can come by the Commerce Guys booth.

It will be easier for most folks giving the code a test drive to use an installation profile to get up and running. With a point release now on drupal.org, my goal is to have a profile available by the end of DrupalCon. It will be based on my development profile, http://github.com/rszrama/commercedev. To use that profile now, you can use the download link in the top right of that page and extract the zip / tarball into yoursite/profiles/commercedev. Ensure you have the proper dependencies in your sites/all/modules directory as listed by the README.txt and installation with some dummy product creation should be a breeze. : )

Bug reports are most welcome and should fine their way to the issue queue as soon as possible so they don't fly away and get forgotten. Patches are even more welcome, and new contributors should feel free to begin with the "low-hanging fruit" issues - http://bit.ly/low-hanging.

This code is not production ready, and we will not include update functions for database changes until we start releasing betas.