Ok, I was scared to be the first one 🙈 let's be a second one 💪
I'm Krystian, I'm 29 y/o web dev from Poland
working with PrestaShop since I was 18, in industry since 2006 (yes, I started doing commercial projects in school)
How can I help?
I want, and I think I can, help with both, transition to Symfony (in v8), and to keep PrestaShop features as stable as possible with future work related to multi-store (in v1.7), I want to help with finishing this first transition period (back office refacto) - by discussing, reviewing and last but not least, coding.
Why?
I'm with PrestaShop for a long, long time, some of you may recognize me from the forum, from Github, Gitter and maybe recently from Slack. My journey with PS started somewhere around v0.8b, SVN, fancy rounded design and all of that ;)
From around 2008 PrestaShop has been main tool for me, my team and my company, thanks to this I feel confident that I can provide additional value, not only related to coding, but decision making, analyzing community and merchant needs etc.
I'm an author of some popular modules in PrestaShop eco-system (both world-wide, and here in Poland), I sold my themes and modules to over 10.000 stores based on PS, thanks to this I know what module developer needs are, what we need to keep and improve when it comes to themes, I know where we should keep PrestaShop as backward compatible as possible.
What else?
I'm programmer with a lot of experience, but because of PrestaShop and working daily with legacy code, doing hybrid solutions for PrestaShop from 1.5 to 1.7, I don't feel confident enough (yet!) with DDD, tests were not always been there, and there's still learning curve for me in some aspects, but I treat this "issue" as a motivation to move forward, along with PS 😎
Last but not least, I wasn't the most active member in past months, but there were some reasons for that, aside from just operating on a fairly large scale commercially with PrestaShop and less time, I was the one who was skeptical about version 1.7 and the fact that the migration to Symfony would not happen within the one long gap between releases. I was scared about many things, lack of final architecture design and concepts (because of this Product and Module pages have to be reworked now), backward compatibility (some multi-store issues are still there) etc.
The fact that the core team of PrestaShop has changed quite a lot in recent years was also not encouraging, I had great contact with many people who are no longer in the company, but there are also many with whom I see a lot of knowledge, motivation for PrestaShop to be a better software and the kind of people you just want to work with. This is why I'm creating this issue.
Oh, and it's no secret that I am an introvert, I'm not at many events, so there is nothing to brag about in this aspect 🤷🏻♂️
Fun fact: I'm an author of first (and wrong 🙈) PrestaShop PR on GitHub PrestaShop/PrestaShop#1
Salutations à tous ✌🏻