Comment: Ideas and thoughts for YACS in 2007 ...

One thing I like about YACS is that it is very self contained, it doesn't use a 3rd party templating system (e.g. smarty) or forum (e.g. phpbb), makes for very neat code and good performance. Ideally it would be best to write our own Ecommerce modules, but to write a good quality one would take a LONG time; integrating a 3rd party Ecommerce app will be achievable much quicker. One other option is to create our own shopping basket module and also product library/catalog/browser module (overlay ?!?) and use a 3rd party payment gateway (e.g. paypal), rather than trying to make a complete ecommerce module.

I have lots of ideas, I am glad that not many get developed, as one thing I do like about YACS is the focus on only implementing features that users require, I have seen some feature packed CMS systems which have all the buzz words features that are cool for techys to brag about on forums and get focused on implementing the latest cool features rather than features users/customers want.