What we learned about Sylius and Open source in last 4 years

1. Lessons learned while
developing with Sylius
Antonio Perić-Mažar, CEO @ Locastic

2. Antonio Perić-Mažar, mag. ing. comp.
CEO, Co-Founder @ Locastic
Co-Founder @ Shi# Conference
So#ware developer, Symfony2
Open Source Contributor
SFUGCRO
www.locastic.com
antonio@locastic.com
@antonioperic

3. We help clients create amazing web and mobile apps (since 2011)
www.locastic.com @Locastic
Design and development agency
Mobile development
Web development
UX/UI
Training and Consulting
Shi! Conference, Symfony Croatia

5. How it all started?

6. 4 years ago, Sylius v0.6.0
Talks:
ezPublish and Sylius integration
Sylius Meetup
PHP Verona Unconference track
WebCamp Ljubljana Lightning Talk

7. Our first project

8. We learned a lot
We started a few times from the beginning
BCs killed us
Daily upgrades

9. Don’t reinvent the wheel
but think twice!

10. Is the product ready for production?
When will it be ready?
Can you maintain it?
Will it save you some time and money?

11. Roadmaps are not
written in stone

12. Roadmap will be changed
You are just a part of community and you cannot
force it in your direction
Sometimes you will wait for months to get
roadmap updated

13. Project owner doesn’t
think/care about your
business

14. His product comes first
Feature list is never final
Be ready for big changes
You should think about your business

15. Good Code doesn’t sell

16. Business owners don’t want to pay for
good code
Features are important
Nice code won’t upgrade to 1.0.0.-alpha
Do you have time and budget to build
all what is missing?

17. You can learn from
good code!

18. BDD
TDD
Symfony best practices
Large project organisation

19. Contributing is hard

20. You need time and budget
It is hard to do it while you are working on a
project for clients
It’s a good thing to do

21. Open Source is
a good sales channel

22. Agencies and clients are following GitHub
You can boost your visibility
You can boost your skills

23. Networking is amazing

24. You will meet a lot of smart and cool people
You will get some new partners
You will learn a lot about communities
and how they work

25. Sylius today

26. Locastic & Sylius

27. Better organisation
More mature projects
Clear roadmap

28. Great fit for small ecommerce projects
Lack of features should be fixed with plugins eco
system
Great fit for large custom projects (if you have
symfony developers in your team)

29. QA

30. www.locastic.com
antonio@locastic.com
@antonioperic
Thank you