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There are other benefits that come from building a community around an open source project. For example: Shopify open-sourced ActiveMerchant, a core component
by Titanous 16y ago
There are other benefits that come from building a community around an open source project.
For example: Shopify open-sourced ActiveMerchant, a core component of our product. Even though our competitors use it, we still derive a lot of benefit from the community around it. Many of the gateway implementations that are used in Shopify were written by ActiveMerchant contributors. Every time someone implements a new gateway, we can add it to Shopify in a few minutes.
- weaksauce 16y agoWhat is the bar to get a payment processor included into Shopify? Do you test it rigorously or just look at the commit history of the project to see if it's up to snuff?
- Titanous 15y agoTo get into ActiveMerchant, it has to be clean code with passing unit and remote tests. We've got pretty much all of the gateways that North American businesses use, so to get a new gateway into Shopify it generally has to service a region that doesn't have good coverage with our current gateways.