The Magento community provides a rock-solid foundation for the continued success of the platform. The connections, collaboration, and shared vision of community members give Magento unique advantages.
In the last episode of Talk Commerce for 2022, we speak with Rani Mani, the Digital Media Customer Communication Lead at Adobe. We talk about all things community and why some companies get community wrong.
Rani Mani is deeply passionate about making customers successful and harnessing the power of customer feedback to improve the overall customer experience.
Rani does this at scale over social media and is constantly looking at new and exciting ways to pinpoint areas where companies are making it especially difficult to do business with them.
Rani is skilled at working with cross-functional teams across the company to figure out ways of reducing customer effort. In addition to being keenly interested in reducing customer effort, she is equally schooled in strategies for providing exemplary support over social channels and cultivating and nurturing community engagement so the company can be a community-driven business.
Brent: Welcome to this special New Year’s Eve version of Talk Commerce. Today I have Rani Mani. Rani, tell us your role, what you do daily, and maybe one of your passions in life.
Rani: Yeah. Hi Brent. So my day-to-day at Ajovy is telling the story of our individual customers, so predominantly our customers using Creative Cloud. I’m incredibly passionate about doing amazing things in the world just because people are truly changing the world. Adobe happens to power that, so that’s been super satisfying to be a part of.
Brent: We met through the Adobe Insiders Program in 2019. Can you believe that? At the Adobe Summit, right? Or Yes. Yeah. So we met right around that time. And you are no longer with that group, so you’ve moved on to a group, but you’ve so graciously been involved in our little mini insider group that you’ve so kindly come on to the podcast today.
Rani: Oh yes. No, there’s no way that I could be too far away from the group with so many friends, and it’s so much more about the people than anything programmatic about the program. So yeah, I thrill to be here, Brent.
Brent: Good. Thank you. Before we get into our content, I think one of the things we’re going to talk about is community.
Brent: You have graciously said that you would participate in the #freejokeproject, so I’m just going to tell you a joke, and all you have to do is say, should this joke be free, or can somebody charge for it at some point? All right, here we go.
Brent: Thanks. I was going to preface it with that. Most of my jokes are not worth saying, but free is very liberal. Thank you so much; all right. Community in our green room, you just mentioned briefly about that it’s sometimes community gets lost and how people do community is lost.
Brent: Can you expand on that?
Rani: I think people lose sight of the fact that community is all about the individual, right? And what’s in it for them, what makes their heart sing, and how they can band together to support and share with one another. That it’s not meant to be transactional.
Rani: And a lot of companies, and even individuals, even nonprofits that I see trying to rally the community, make it about other things other than the individual. And I often wonder Brent is it not the most obvious thing that the community should be about the people that are in it? And why are we making so much of a big deal around the cause?
Rani: or the corporation or whatever the external thing is, as opposed to diving into the people. Because I feel like once you dive into the people and they are loyalists, and they’re bound to one another, no matter what the thing is, they will stay intact. Which I think is a real testament to how our insider program.
Rani: I could come in and out of it. Adobe may or may not be a part of it, but I feel like that group will forever last. Now the way we’ve set it up, I feel very confident about that because you are all so connected to one another that it’s a real thing of beauty to watch.
Brent: Yeah, I like what you said about not transactional, and I think leaders in positions that look for ROI want to figure out how can this transaction give us value.
Brent: And I think that’s the first mistake anybody would make in building community. Maybe just tell us a little bit more about how you feel and what you think about it being about the person. How focusing on that person helps build community. Cause some might think that’s backward like it should be focused on the community.
Brent: But I agree with you that it is about the people in the community and focusing on each of those. People help the community to become stronger.
Rani: Yep. I feel like there is no community without the individual, and a community happens to be the sum of multiple individuals. And so, to me, the most basic attack.
Rani: Adam of that community is individual. So I need to not. I need to. I want to focus on who you are, Brent, and what makes you sing, right? What lights you up and what are you trying to do in the world, and how can Adobe and how can I be a part of that? And how can this community assist you in that, right? Like when you start with that premise, it’s a win-win for all.
Rani: But I feel like it’s no different, Brent, than anything in life, right? Whatever it is that you’re doing in life, if you don’t start with the individual and what does success look like to them and what gets them out of bed today, and what are their hopes and dreams like, how are you going to get to the heart of anything if you don’t start at that very basic level of the person?
Brent: The flip side would be that some company wants to create community, and they want the community to be about the company, and then everybody loses focus on the people in it because there’s no common bond between the people. It’s all just the company and the.
Brent: Whatever they’re trying to do is driving that community. Where organically community should be built because people want to participate in it,
Rani: And the company should and can be a part of it. Like I feel like our Adobe Insiders Group has and will continue to do Somers results for Adobe, right?
Rani: I feel like this group does amazing things on behalf of Adobe and is very quick to defend and promote and all of that, for which Adobe is incredibly grateful. But in the event, Adobe was to ever step out of that community, I really firmly believe that, Because you all have established such a bond, and there are so many connective tissue threads within the group that, it’s really wonderful.
Brent: Part of the way I got into the Adobe community was through Magento, an Adobe acquisition. And I can say that the Magento community operates in a similar fashion, where the community really is the driver of everything around what the corporation would like to see, but there’s no oversight from some big brother saying you as a community have to do this.
Brent: And I like what you said about, they’ll do somersaults over it cuz they’re passionate about what they’re doing right. Like everybody in the community is passionate about some aspect of what they’re in it for,
Rani: right? Everybody gets something slightly different, and there is no overarching you need to attend this many meetings, and you need to tweet this many times.
Rani: And I very purposely left it that way. Because I just felt like there were many, much bigger things that bound us together as people. That would have a much greater staying power than providing some arbitrary structure like that,
Brent: Talk a little bit about the difference of how we can help to tell each of our own stories rather than a company story.
Brent: As a community, does it really help the community to tell the story about the company, or does it tell, is it help the community to tell the story about individuals who are in the community??
Rani: I don’t see it as a mutually exclusive thing. If you think about it, Brent, our community does both, right?
Rani: Our community gives the name and faith, and personality to the Adobe logo, as you tell different things that you’re doing using Adobe products, it’s your story, but ultimately gets wrapped up into Adobe story as. , right? So I feel like both need to happen for it to be a really compelling, memorable story.
Brent: I can remember in Magento Imagine the last one was 2019 and then the Adobe Summit followed up. But during that, we got Adobe Rush as a free gift for attending blah, blah blah. And I remember sitting there in that Adobe. I attended one of the Adobe Rush specific like there was some kind of a tutorial event or some
Brent: kickoff event and said, Hey, this is what it actually does. And I did CR I, and I remember him creating a short video during the session that said, Hey, I’ve made this while multitasking in my Adobe Rush session on Adobe Rush using Adobe Rush. And then, I published it by the end of the session.
Brent: I think it just, that kind of gives to how we can be passionate about a product and also promote a product while doing a product and sitting in listening about a product. I don’t know where I’m going with this story but was true. It was still fun.
Rani: Very true. But not all products and services lend itself to that, right?
Rani: Adobe is in an absolutely unique position to have such an iconic brand and so many products that are within the fabric of our culture that, it lends itself to exactly what you’re talking about.
Brent: It’s not as exciting to say, Hey, I’ve created an integration using Adobe io. While I was doing my Adobe IO session, and now I can, oh my gosh, make AEM talk to joking.
Rani: Adobe covers, or for the people who are part of what do you call it, washing machines or dryers or, like I, I often, when I first started the group, I was like, this is criminal that I get to do this because, It’s how Adobe set up and what we offer the world, it’s, I feel like people clamor to be a part of it.
Rani: So it’s just, it’s such a natural, dare I say, easy thing to mobilize the community around.
Brent: If you could speak a little bit to how. How you see the storytelling and if there’s anything different. Is there a magic sauce in the Adobe community, or is it something that is just inherently good because the community is building what the community’s building?
Rani: I think the magic sauce is the people, right? Like the love. If any individual within the group were to pull back or new people came in, the ethos would be different. And that isn’t to say that we don’t always welcome or look for new people, but I think there’s something very special about the existing.
Rani: People within the community and the amount of time you’ve all been together, the kind of hopes and dreams and struggles that you’ve all shared. You’ve been in some of our happy hours, Brent. And we get very up close and personal, right? We’re talking about deaths and marriages and divorces and Custody battles,
Rani: We talk about some really milestone real hearts stringing kind of things, and so that kind of vulnerability and that kind of connection with one another, it’s very much driven by the people.
Brent: The key to a good community is just what you were saying about it’s not just about some one thing that there are so many aspects around that. And we all have our own lives, right? And our own lives contribute to the community.
Brent: And whatever we do in our lives helps to build that community and make it stronger. And then, maybe you could speak a little bit about it. each of us in a community has a strong point. Each of us has one little aspect that adds to it and makes it a really strong community.
Brent: How important do you think the diversity in that community is?
Rani: When I think about diversity, I think about it more than just ethnic and cultural diversity, right? I’m thinking about it as diversity of thought, diversity of backgrounds. Perspective, and that’s so important because we don’t. How boring would it be if we’re all like one another?
Rani: There have been things brought up and new and innovative ideas that have been offered due to the diversity. And we’ve all benefited from it. That’s why I’m so impressed with you, Brent, that in addition to being a part of the Magento community, you still took that leap of faith and became a part of this community that, at first, I’m sure, felt like a bunch of doorknobs, right?
Rani: Because there was no one. Product or one campaign, or one, anything that bounds us together. I brought a group of people together, and my ultimate question was, are these decent human beings? Oh, and of course, who happens to have a decent social footprint who are doing new and interesting things in the world of digital experiences?
Rani: But my ultimate criteria was, Are these people that I admire enough and feel comfortable enough with that I would invite into my own home and expose my four kids to, right? That was my ultimate criteria. And without exception, every single one of you that’s part of this group, it’s a resounding yes to that.
Rani: And so it’s been a great thing, right? We’ve just got a really good group of people. . Like not just the passion, but the level of goodness of the human being, right?
Brent: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And for the kid’s thing, I’m worried more about the community members and my kids, like they’re exposed to my kids because, never mind.
Brent: Yeah. Gonna, I was going down the, a bad joke path there, . Yeah. And I guess when I was thinking about diversity, I wasn’t necessarily thinking. Cultural and ethnic, but that is a good part of it. It is important in a community for people to have different strong points.
Brent: And, I’m part of the commerce community, which gives me a different view on things. And now, for me personally, what I’ve learned from, going to the Adobe Summit when it was live in person, but then attending the virtual ones, was that there’s so much more to the whole experience that a customer would have using something like Adobe, you’re using any kind of platform that we can all become better people or even better in our own personal roles that we’re doing because we’re exposed to this diversity in what everybody’s doing.
Brent: So there could be one person who’s marketing, and there’s one person who’s data or commerce or whatever, like we all get together, and we talk. I think that’s as important in that community as the community itself.
Rani: Yep. No, I agree. I agree. And the ethnic diversity has been a real treat as well because, Adobe really stands for,
Rani: amplifying and elevating the diverse voices that we represent in the community, right? In terms of our customer base. And so that was important to me as well, that we had that right mix of cultural and ethnic diversity within our group because, ultimately, perspective is made up of who you are and where you come from, right?
Rani: And so we, we have a real nice mix of that within our group as well.
Brent: Yeah, absolutely. And just want to applaud you for helping us to tell our stories in the community. You helped me quite a bit. To be able to tell my story to the community.
Brent: And I think I have a blog post out there somewhere. Anyways, it doesn’t matter. That’s hard to hear. Yes. No, there
Rani: is. And it was a beautifully done story as well, Brent. In fact, we should link to that from Oh yeah. This podcast so that people can see it because I, and this. The premise of who Adobe is, we believe that everyone has a story to tell.
Rani: And whatever we can as a company, given our products and services, whatever we can do to empower and enable you to tell your story, then we’ve done our job.
Brent: That’s awesome. Rani, we’re quickly running out of time. I know we wanted to target 10 to 15 minutes. A as we close out the podcast, I give a guest the opportunity to do a shameless plug about anything.
Brent: What would you like to plug today?
Rani: Yes, I would love to plug a nonprofit organization in the Bay Area by the name of Project Hired. I’m a very proud board member of the organization, and the organization is, Focused on providing advocacy and providing employment services for the disabled community.
Rani: Disabled people makeup one in four people in the world are disabled, and unfortunately, disabled people are woefully underemployed. And so this organization. Provides counseling and guidance and all sorts of services to help individuals with disabilities get employment. I would love for the audience to take a look into Project Hired and participate with them in any which way that you feel inclined.
Rani: Obviously, during the holidays and going into the new year, we’re always looking for donations. And donations don’t always have to be in the form of money. It can be volunteering. It can be if you’re a part of a company that has open jobs that you would like to do some matchmaking with our clients, that would be incredible.
Rani: So many different ways to participate and to give.
Brent: Yeah. Thank you for that. And incidentally, I just did an interview with a company that does sim something similar. It’s called John’s Crazy Sox, and they hired a disabled individual in there, and I don’t know what the percentage is, but it’s large, that’s one of their missions, and they talked a lot about the mission of whatever the company is, has to reflect what their customers are wanting.
Brent: And I feel as though Adobe does reflect. In itself and with the employees and people like you that help to promote causes like this and help to amplify their voices. Yes.
Rani: Yes. No, most
Brent: Definitely. Rani Mani, thank you so much for being here today. It’s been such a pleasure talking to you, and I wish you a very happy New Year.
Rani: Oh, a very happy New Year to you as well, Brent. Thanks for having me.
What is a healthy ecosystem? Is it with a platform that only focuses on large enterprise clients like the fortune 500? Or is a healthy ecosystem around a broad base of commerce users that can mature and grow into a large company?
Robert Rand and Brent talk about the future of Magento Open source and what Adobe could do to help the community. We debate on the sliming of the core to add more features.
What do you think? We finish the episode talking about Shopware and the blue wave coming to the USA.
Let’s face it. It’s hard to build an ecosystem. We discuss what Shopware is doing to build its ecosystem and the resources they are putting into making this happen.
This episode was hosted by Kalen Jordan. The interview happened on the behest of Kalen to talk more about the Mage Open Source Community Alliance and the recent letter published.
The “Cone of Silence”
Transcript
00:02:36,173 –> 00:02:39,533 kalen: See here’s the great thing about the car in the garage. is that?
59 00:02:40,733 –> 00:02:46,573 kalen: Um, you get what I got Wifi. I got great Wi fi. So that’s not an issue. I’ve got good
60 00:02:46,733 –> 00:02:49,293 kalen: connectivity. Great sound proroofing
61 00:02:49,773 –> 00:02:51,533 kalen: right, because when you have kids,
63 00:02:52,653 –> 00:02:53,693 kalen: that’s the key. It’s
64 00:02:53,340 –> 00:02:54,340 65 00:02:53,853 –> 00:02:59,293 kalen: all about soundproofing, so cars are probably, Uh. Your car is your probably single
66 00:02:59,533 –> 00:03:04,333 kalen: most sound proooofd object that you own, believe it or not, So
67 00:03:05,120 –> 00:03:06,240 brent_peterson: except for the Um. The
68 00:03:05,993 –> 00:03:06,993 69 00:03:06,400 –> 00:03:09,760 brent_peterson: Cone of silence from the original gets smart, and now you’re going to have
70 00:03:09,760 –> 00:03:11,680 brent_peterson: to google that because it’s quite hilarious.
71 00:03:12,500 –> 00:03:13,500 brent_peterson: Look up. the
72 00:03:13,033 –> 00:03:14,033 73 00:03:13,360 –> 00:03:16,800 brent_peterson: Cone of silence in the original gets smart from the nineteen sixties.
74 00:03:16,813 –> 00:03:21,133 kalen: You’re going to have an entire to do list of things to Google by the time you’re
75 00:03:21,293 –> 00:03:23,213 kalen: done with this podcast, Which is
77 00:03:24,973 –> 00:03:26,413 kalen: it? Just as it should be
78 00:03:25,200 –> 00:03:29,520 brent_peterson: Um, for so for soundproofing, I’m building a little home studio in my
79 00:03:29,600 –> 00:03:31,120 brent_peterson: basement, Um, not like
80 00:03:30,673 –> 00:03:31,673 81 00:03:31,440 –> 00:03:36,320 brent_peterson: t. â–j gamble. I’m not going to gamble hundreds of thousands of dollars on my
83 00:03:37,553 –> 00:03:38,553 kalen: First of all, No,
84 00:03:39,060 –> 00:03:40,060 brent_peterson: no, nobody.
85 00:03:39,133 –> 00:03:42,893 kalen: nobody does anything quite like T. â–j gamble, so that
86 00:03:41,120 –> 00:03:43,760 brent_peterson: Yeah, nobody can compete against that. I’m going to
87 00:03:43,473 –> 00:03:44,473 88 00:03:43,920 –> 00:03:48,480 brent_peterson: spend two percent of my budget. Uh, like that. as compared to his hundred
89 00:03:48,720 –> 00:03:54,560 brent_peterson: percent, he’s going to be the United States military infrastructure, and I’m
90 00:03:54,540 –> 00:03:55,540 brent_peterson: going to be like
91 00:03:56,140 –> 00:03:57,140 92 00:03:57,820 –> 00:03:58,820 brent_peterson: Um for
93 00:03:58,273 –> 00:03:59,273 94 00:03:58,740 –> 00:03:59,740 brent_peterson: for budgeting towards
95 00:04:00,880 –> 00:04:04,720 brent_peterson: my my studio. But this morning I was recording and I got everything all set
96 00:04:04,880 –> 00:04:06,480 brent_peterson: up very nicely, made the
97 00:04:06,273 –> 00:04:07,273 98 00:04:06,480 –> 00:04:10,240 brent_peterson: mistake of leaving the door upstairs open and we have a new Jack
99 00:04:09,873 –> 00:04:10,873 100 00:04:10,400 –> 00:04:12,960 brent_peterson: Russell. so the next thing I know is Susan’s
101 00:04:13,033 –> 00:04:14,033 kalen: That’ll do it.
102 00:04:13,120 –> 00:04:17,120 brent_peterson: running down the stairs. Turns the corner and all I hear is No,
103 00:04:18,480 –> 00:04:22,880 brent_peterson: And the this little puppies’s found the basement. and and we have carpeting
104 00:04:23,040 –> 00:04:26,400 brent_peterson: and has discovered that. Hey, this carpet is just like grass.
105 00:04:27,680 –> 00:04:28,800 brent_peterson: So if you listen
106 00:04:28,833 –> 00:04:29,833 kalen: just like grass.
107 00:04:29,120 –> 00:04:34,560 brent_peterson: to my, if you listen to my podcast today with Ysa Ritzma, there will be a
108 00:04:34,720 –> 00:04:37,680 brent_peterson: person yelling in the background that only comes in
109 00:04:37,313 –> 00:04:38,313 110 00:04:37,840 –> 00:04:42,480 brent_peterson: for a second, and I will give a Starbucks gift card if you can pick out that
111 00:04:42,720 –> 00:04:44,160 brent_peterson: exact time five dollar
113 00:04:44,320 –> 00:04:47,920 brent_peterson: Gar, Starbucks gift card If you could pick out the. If you give me the time
114 00:04:48,060 –> 00:04:49,060 brent_peterson: signature on that
115 00:04:50,513 –> 00:04:51,513 kalen: very cool.
116 00:04:51,500 –> 00:04:52,500 brent_peterson: Yeah, big spender.
117 00:04:51,613 –> 00:04:57,453 kalen: Well, if the link is up, if the link is up, I will. I literally will stop our podcast
118 00:04:57,613 –> 00:05:00,253 kalen: right now and just go find that. because
119 00:04:59,040 –> 00:05:03,360 brent_peterson: Hey, th. I. I. I recorded that early this morning and I published it
120 00:05:03,100 –> 00:05:04,100 121 00:05:03,453 –> 00:05:07,773 kalen: Okay and it’s up. Okay be cause. I, I mean, honestly, I’d rather just get the gift
122 00:05:08,093 –> 00:05:09,533 kalen: certificate. I mean, you know,
123 00:05:09,140 –> 00:05:10,140 124 00:05:09,693 –> 00:05:13,533 kalen: as much as I enjoy chatting, I I could really use.
125 00:05:11,760 –> 00:05:13,760 brent_peterson: for for you, I would send it anyways,
126 00:05:14,973 –> 00:05:21,293 kalen: Okay. Well, I, I, I’m in. I’m go to hold you to that. Uh, cause I, you know, I really
127 00:05:21,533 –> 00:05:26,493 kalen: need the Co. These are tough times and I could use a gift card right about now for
128 00:05:25,520 –> 00:05:29,840 brent_peterson: as you sit in your Um, modelles Tesle models that you probably
129 00:05:26,353 –> 00:05:27,353 kalen: some coffee.
130 00:05:29,553 –> 00:05:30,553 131 00:05:30,240 –> 00:05:33,680 brent_peterson: got hand delivered from from Yn musk.
132 00:05:34,573 –> 00:05:36,973 kalen: well, we. You know, we do hang out from time to time.
133 00:05:36,740 –> 00:05:37,740 134 00:05:38,333 –> 00:05:42,813 kalen: He’s a good guy. Are you pro Elon Mosqu or anti Yon mosque? This is my new. Okay.
135 00:05:40,880 –> 00:05:44,720 brent_peterson: I’m pro. Do you not read? You know, do you not look at your social media
136 00:05:44,733 –> 00:05:49,373 kalen: I read. No, I. no, I read. I read. I mean, I. I read a lot of stuff. Um,
137 00:05:44,960 –> 00:05:46,960 brent_peterson: when you? okay, Yeah,
138 00:05:50,653 –> 00:05:53,613 kalen: I read the New York Times Covered to cover every morning.
152 00:06:21,540 –> 00:06:22,540 153 00:06:22,573 –> 00:06:28,573 kalen: Uh, So what? what? Uh? What did you talk to Yssie about today? Man, y, I saw his post
154 00:06:29,053 –> 00:06:31,613 kalen: on the open source situation. I,
155 00:06:33,213 –> 00:06:36,653 kalen: I, um. I agreed with a lot of it. I was happy that he said a lot of stuff he said.
156 00:06:37,300 –> 00:06:38,300 157 00:06:37,933 –> 00:06:39,453 kalen: But what did you guys rant about?
158 00:06:38,080 –> 00:06:43,840 brent_peterson: so I think W. we. We tried to dig into what is the issue here? Um, and it’s
159 00:06:44,000 –> 00:06:47,920 brent_peterson: really not. It’s not about forking or not forking right, and I didn’t make
160 00:06:48,000 –> 00:06:52,320 brent_peterson: the joke about Uh, my my neighbor, as I was growing up. Uh, I grew up in
161 00:06:52,400 –> 00:06:57,520 brent_peterson: Golden valley, Minnesota, and my neighbor had a uh, at a had like a thirty
162 00:06:57,760 –> 00:07:03,120 brent_peterson: two Cadillac, this giant car, and he got personalized license plates on the
163 00:07:03,200 –> 00:07:05,040 brent_peterson: car that said four â–q two.
164 00:07:05,953 –> 00:07:06,953 165 00:07:06,800 –> 00:07:13,200 brent_peterson: Um, and I’m sure it had nothing to do with Uh, forking a Github repository
166 00:07:13,360 –> 00:07:16,240 brent_peterson: or any sort of repository. Uh, because it was like
167 00:07:16,073 –> 00:07:17,073 kalen: You never know.
168 00:07:16,400 –> 00:07:18,960 brent_peterson: this is a. This is in the late seventies, anyways,
169 00:07:19,373 –> 00:07:25,213 kalen: I mean, maybe William is seventy four years old and he just is, is aged very well,
170 00:07:23,920 –> 00:07:29,440 brent_peterson: y. He, he carries it very well anyway, so I don’t think that this is a. The.
171 00:07:29,600 –> 00:07:34,000 brent_peterson: The issue here is not about forking or not forking. The issue is about
172 00:07:34,320 –> 00:07:36,880 brent_peterson: transparency and communication from Adobe.
173 00:07:38,033 –> 00:07:39,033 174 00:07:38,560 –> 00:07:44,320 brent_peterson: And the second issue then is about the Magento Association and how much can
175 00:07:44,260 –> 00:07:45,260 brent_peterson: they share?
176 00:07:46,320 –> 00:07:50,160 brent_peterson: How much control do they have? And what do people think they can do
177 00:07:50,753 –> 00:07:51,753 178 00:07:52,973 –> 00:07:57,453 kalen: Yeah, I think it’s all. Yeah, there is kind of. It’s all kind of bundled together and
179 00:07:57,533 –> 00:08:03,213 kalen: it’ weird. I feel like even talking right. You’re in a doobe partner, right, I
180 00:08:03,373 –> 00:08:07,773 kalen: assume, unless you’ve gotten pulled from the partner program for making tons of
181 00:08:07,853 –> 00:08:11,133 kalen: horrible dad jokes, which I assume could happen at any point.
198 00:08:54,960 –> 00:08:58,720 brent_peterson: Yeah. but what is the issue here? I think the issue is pretty clear that and
199 00:08:58,800 –> 00:08:59,840 brent_peterson: they stated it right.
200 00:09:01,440 –> 00:09:08,160 brent_peterson: They, this so again. This makes for a lot of unknown variables. There is no
201 00:09:08,320 –> 00:09:11,360 brent_peterson: public road map from a gentle open source and this has
202 00:09:11,153 –> 00:09:12,153 203 00:09:11,600 –> 00:09:12,640 brent_peterson: left a lot of the community
204 00:09:13,760 –> 00:09:18,320 brent_peterson: who believe in the monolith who believe in the model is a valid approach to
205 00:09:18,400 –> 00:09:21,840 brent_peterson: many cases feeling uneasy about the future in Ma Geno,
206 00:09:22,433 –> 00:09:23,433 207 00:09:23,420 –> 00:09:24,420 brent_peterson: So I think
208 00:09:24,033 –> 00:09:25,033 209 00:09:25,040 –> 00:09:28,880 brent_peterson: it, and I don’t think it’s about forking or not forking. It’s not really
210 00:09:29,200 –> 00:09:35,520 brent_peterson: about about monolith or splitting up into micro services. It really is about
211 00:09:36,240 –> 00:09:40,480 brent_peterson: helping people understand where the open sources where the open source of
212 00:09:40,420 –> 00:09:41,420 brent_peterson: magenta is going.
213 00:09:42,733 –> 00:09:47,053 kalen: right, right and a, and I just feel like, Um,
214 00:09:49,533 –> 00:09:54,013 kalen: you know I, you know I’m I’m a little bit further from the details these days. As far
215 00:09:54,173 –> 00:09:59,853 kalen: as what exactly they’re introducing with the micros, and how that’s differing from
216 00:10:00,093 –> 00:10:05,293 kalen: the the traditional kind of moth. I bundle together lots of different things under
217 00:10:05,533 –> 00:10:11,373 kalen: this category of like community unrest, like the the, The people that have been
218 00:10:11,693 –> 00:10:16,733 kalen: complaining about con, contributing the people that have posted an issue to Gith hub
219 00:10:16,973 –> 00:10:22,333 kalen: and they get no response And then ninety days later the issue gets auto closed,
220 00:10:22,653 –> 00:10:27,293 kalen: right, Or you know, Uh, Jacob Winkler has posted a lot about stuff he’s contributed
221 00:10:27,453 –> 00:10:31,453 kalen: and it just gets. it. just sits there. I talked to Damie and Retzinger about that
222 00:10:31,533 –> 00:10:37,773 kalen: yesterday, Lukash, uh, uh. What’s his face? that? Um, uh, he’s going to get mad of me
223 00:10:37,853 –> 00:10:43,053 kalen: for that that had similar issues. It’s just like there’s all this stuff where there’s
224 00:10:43,133 –> 00:10:47,053 kalen: all this energy of the com. Like when I said something to me, said like there’s this
225 00:10:47,133 –> 00:10:52,573 kalen: energy and if it’s not sort of harnessed it gets frustrated And that’s what I see
226 00:10:52,813 –> 00:10:56,733 kalen: from. Like The Twenty thousand foot view is like there’s people waiting around on P.
227 00:10:56,893 –> 00:11:02,893 kalen: Rs. there’s people waiting around for architectural direction. There’s just all this
228 00:11:03,133 –> 00:11:08,733 kalen: and it’s just like Hey, let’s start a dialogue with a dooby. What does that even mean
229 00:11:09,133 –> 00:11:14,413 kalen: start a dialogue like I want. like I want to see people just do stuff you know, Like
230 00:11:14,893 –> 00:11:19,293 kalen: William came out with Hooa, and everybody loves it. He reinvented the front end.
231 00:11:19,853 –> 00:11:25,053 kalen: Everybody loves it right. it’s it’s he’s doing stuff. He’s actually making stuff
232 00:11:25,293 –> 00:11:30,253 kalen: happen independently. I feel like that’s kind of the spir. I’m on a rant here. I’m on
233 00:11:30,333 –> 00:11:31,773 kalen: a full on rent. Um,
234 00:11:32,813 –> 00:11:37,293 kalen: anyways, I feel like that’s kind of the spirit of Magento is that we just go out and
235 00:11:37,373 –> 00:11:42,093 kalen: we do stuff, whether that’s in the form of a a module that we create and contribute
236 00:11:42,333 –> 00:11:48,573 kalen: or whatever. we just do stuff. And we don’t sit around waiting for approval from
237 00:11:48,733 –> 00:11:54,093 kalen: anybody, and I feel like we’ve just been sitting around waiting for approvals. You
238 00:11:54,173 –> 00:11:58,653 kalen: know now, I, that’s just my. I could be completely wrong about that ’cause I’m not
239 00:11:58,813 –> 00:12:01,213 kalen: very on the ground connected all this stuff
240 00:12:02,720 –> 00:12:06,640 brent_peterson: Yeah, I think they’re I. you’re. You’re very correct in saying that people
241 00:12:06,880 –> 00:12:08,560 brent_peterson: are sitting around waiting for
242 00:12:09,600 –> 00:12:13,200 brent_peterson: fixes to get put in and I think that uh
243 00:12:14,320 –> 00:12:19,680 brent_peterson: that Adobe has definitely missed the boat in terms of making sure that from
244 00:12:19,760 –> 00:12:23,680 brent_peterson: the community side they’re keeping up with what’s happening on those on
245 00:12:23,760 –> 00:12:26,480 brent_peterson: those poll requests and and those fixes, because they are
247 00:12:26,640 –> 00:12:32,240 brent_peterson: missing out on a huge amount of potential bugs that are in the code already
248 00:12:32,480 –> 00:12:34,240 brent_peterson: and that are getting fixed And it’s a.
249 00:12:34,033 –> 00:12:35,033 250 00:12:34,480 –> 00:12:38,240 brent_peterson: It’s a Mi. You know thousands of coders that are out there helping that. Um.
251 00:12:38,033 –> 00:12:39,033 252 00:12:39,440 –> 00:12:42,960 brent_peterson: So that’s one issue. The other issue that you brought up is what is the road
253 00:12:43,120 –> 00:12:47,200 brent_peterson: map of Magento? Um. I think there’s sort of a road map for the commerce
254 00:12:47,360 –> 00:12:51,200 brent_peterson: version of it, but it’s not. It hasn’t been published since Say twenty
255 00:12:51,520 –> 00:12:56,240 brent_peterson: nineteen, Uh, Since the last time we had a live conference. Um, I don’t know
256 00:12:56,400 –> 00:13:00,640 brent_peterson: if they’ve actually put out at any like Meet Me Genento, India, or any like
257 00:13:00,640 –> 00:13:04,720 brent_peterson: this. Meet me Gentle Poland, Did anybody from a doobe show up for the
258 00:13:04,720 –> 00:13:07,360 brent_peterson: virtual part of it? I haven’t seen the whole conference yet,
259 00:13:08,260 –> 00:13:09,260 brent_peterson: but did
260 00:13:08,653 –> 00:13:12,893 kalen: yeah, I know, I just I just know they said that they had a travel restriction so as
261 00:13:12,973 –> 00:13:16,333 kalen: far as actually going, nobody actually went there in person.
262 00:13:17,040 –> 00:13:21,680 brent_peterson: yeah. So, um, you know that’s that be? I think, just helping us to
263 00:13:21,700 –> 00:13:22,700 264 00:13:23,440 –> 00:13:28,240 brent_peterson: where we’re going the last time I saw Anton Cririll, before he left Magento.
265 00:13:28,880 –> 00:13:35,280 brent_peterson: he gave a speech at Meet Magento Germany about Magenta moving to isolated
266 00:13:35,220 –> 00:13:36,220 267 00:13:36,593 –> 00:13:37,593 268 00:13:37,360 –> 00:13:41,840 brent_peterson: And I’m okay with that. And the reason is is you can still put those
269 00:13:42,000 –> 00:13:47,760 brent_peterson: isolated services together as a monoliphs, and and deploy it now. Yes and I
270 00:13:48,000 –> 00:13:52,800 brent_peterson: had the conversation this morning about. Does that mean? Uh, you’re going to
271 00:13:52,880 –> 00:13:57,040 brent_peterson: have to use something like G, P, r, S, or some. He. He had a technical term
272 00:13:57,200 –> 00:14:01,120 brent_peterson: that have already forgotten. Um. they’re They’re like a graphq, â–, type of
273 00:14:01,200 –> 00:14:05,120 brent_peterson: interface that’s internal that binds those services together And is that
274 00:14:05,360 –> 00:14:08,560 brent_peterson: going to be slower than not binding them together? I don’t know who. I don’t
275 00:14:08,720 –> 00:14:13,600 brent_peterson: care. because if it isn’t that, doobe’s probably going to fix it. So is it
277 00:14:13,553 –> 00:14:14,553 278 00:14:14,000 –> 00:14:17,840 brent_peterson: monolither really an issue or not? I don’t know. I think what the issue is
279 00:14:18,160 –> 00:14:23,920 brent_peterson: is like what they’ve done with Uh, with search. they’ve deprecated uh, a Mi
280 00:14:24,160 –> 00:14:29,360 brent_peterson: sequel search in favor of elastic search. without giving the option of
281 00:14:29,520 –> 00:14:33,680 brent_peterson: having just a regular. Uh, my sequel search, and
282 00:14:33,313 –> 00:14:34,313 283 00:14:33,920 –> 00:14:37,360 brent_peterson: jeeze, I know that everybody loves my sequel search. They love the fact
284 00:14:37,073 –> 00:14:38,073 285 00:14:37,520 –> 00:14:41,120 brent_peterson: that as you search for anything, you bring everything up on the database.
286 00:14:41,393 –> 00:14:42,393 287 00:14:42,580 –> 00:14:43,580 brent_peterson: What could be better
288 00:14:42,993 –> 00:14:43,993 289 00:14:43,680 –> 00:14:47,040 brent_peterson: than if you had a thousand things? And no matter what you search for, you
290 00:14:47,200 –> 00:14:49,840 brent_peterson: always get a thousand results. See, I’m
291 00:14:49,553 –> 00:14:50,553 292 00:14:50,000 –> 00:14:52,000 brent_peterson: being sarcastic. Now you’re not even laughing,
293 00:14:52,573 –> 00:14:56,013 kalen: I. I didn’t even catch that because all I was thinking about was going into my next
294 00:14:55,833 –> 00:14:56,833 295 00:14:57,840 –> 00:15:02,160 brent_peterson: So what you’re saying is what I hear you saying. Now is you’re not actually
296 00:15:02,400 –> 00:15:03,760 brent_peterson: listening to me? You’re
297 00:15:03,773 –> 00:15:05,213 kalen: I. I let me,
298 00:15:03,920 –> 00:15:05,920 brent_peterson: just thinking about what you’re going to say next.
299 00:15:06,653 –> 00:15:10,733 kalen: you know I did make that mistake, but let me take a step back. Let me take a step
300 00:15:10,893 –> 00:15:16,733 kalen: back. And what you said was there is a thousand things in the database and every se
301 00:15:16,973 –> 00:15:20,973 kalen: â–query returns you without. So you’re saying My sequel is horrendous for research. Is
302 00:15:20,953 –> 00:15:21,953 kalen: what you trying to say?
303 00:15:21,360 –> 00:15:25,360 brent_peterson: It sucks. but at least it works at the some degree, and it gives somebody
304 00:15:25,600 –> 00:15:28,320 brent_peterson: that basic option if they want to. You know that the issue
345 00:18:09,053 –> 00:18:13,293 kalen: proof will be in the pudding. That’s another thing. the I said on the on the panel
346 00:18:13,693 –> 00:18:16,413 kalen: which I really enjoyed. It was very, very interesting.
347 00:18:18,673 –> 00:18:19,673 348 00:18:19,200 –> 00:18:23,200 brent_peterson: No, I think that, Uh that. I mean, I think that William Willm has started
349 00:18:23,440 –> 00:18:27,520 brent_peterson: something that that has been that has been lacking in our community. Um, if
350 00:18:27,680 –> 00:18:32,400 brent_peterson: we look back at what happened when Ebay bought Magento, it took about three
351 00:18:32,420 –> 00:18:33,420 brent_peterson: years for
352 00:18:34,320 –> 00:18:40,880 brent_peterson: for them to realize that there is a strong underpinning of public sentiment
353 00:18:41,713 –> 00:18:42,713 354 00:18:42,560 –> 00:18:48,240 brent_peterson: that that evolved around Magento and Um. There was a number of people that
355 00:18:48,400 –> 00:18:53,360 brent_peterson: got invited to the imagined conference, and uh, Um and Um, you know they.
356 00:18:53,520 –> 00:18:57,920 brent_peterson: re. They sort of reinvigorated the community and then I think the next year
357 00:18:58,080 –> 00:19:00,320 brent_peterson: they sold they sold it. Um,
359 00:19:03,200 –> 00:19:06,800 brent_peterson: when uh? you know, I think when Uh, Marco of Veltic took over, then there
360 00:19:06,880 –> 00:19:11,440 brent_peterson: was this recom commitment to the Mu to the community. I’m interested in
361 00:19:11,600 –> 00:19:17,600 brent_peterson: learning Uh, from people that that were involved in say, uh, a M, a patache
362 00:19:17,760 –> 00:19:21,840 brent_peterson: sling or one of the other open source platforms that they have. Uh, what
363 00:19:22,080 –> 00:19:24,800 brent_peterson: what that community looks like? And I know it’s a different
364 00:19:24,433 –> 00:19:25,433 365 00:19:24,960 –> 00:19:30,000 brent_peterson: type of community. I think a M’s on Java. Um, and it’s a little bit more
366 00:19:30,080 –> 00:19:31,200 brent_peterson: mature maybe than
367 00:19:30,833 –> 00:19:31,833 368 00:19:31,360 –> 00:19:35,280 brent_peterson: Magento, But it’d be interesting to see what what’s happened to those people
369 00:19:36,080 –> 00:19:39,360 brent_peterson: and do. does. Uh. does a doobe still listen to them?
370 00:19:40,973 –> 00:19:46,573 kalen: Yeah, that’s a good question. I think I want to say, Cordova, or Phone Gap, or one of
371 00:19:46,653 –> 00:19:51,533 kalen: those was also one of the bigger open source projects that had been acquired, and I
372 00:19:51,613 –> 00:19:56,733 kalen: was always curious about the same thing. You know how, how how have things gone with
373 00:19:56,813 –> 00:19:59,293 kalen: some of these other open source communities?
374 00:19:59,873 –> 00:20:00,873 375 00:20:01,613 –> 00:20:06,973 kalen: but I don’t know. I think. probably the fact that we don’t already know like they’re
376 00:20:07,133 –> 00:20:11,293 kalen: not there. There isn’t like a druple community out there. There isn’t a typo three
377 00:20:11,153 –> 00:20:12,153 378 00:20:11,920 –> 00:20:13,280 brent_peterson: Well, there is a Dple community.
379 00:20:12,173 –> 00:20:16,493 kalen: out there. There’s a no. no, No, No, but I’m saying Under Adobe
380 00:20:16,720 –> 00:20:18,080 brent_peterson: Oh, right. okay, got it.
381 00:20:16,973 –> 00:20:22,733 kalen: Like there there, you know there isn’t there. Aren’t one of these kind of bigger open
382 00:20:23,053 –> 00:20:25,293 kalen: source communities that you think of immediately,
383 00:20:26,733 –> 00:20:31,213 kalen: So yes, I mean, I, I don’t really know. And then, of course you know more and more
384 00:20:31,373 –> 00:20:35,933 kalen: people are leaving every day, right like Matt. A C was there for a while and he was
385 00:20:36,093 –> 00:20:44,493 kalen: rara open source. Then he was gone and bed bargs, of course is, uh, is uh now at uh,
386 00:20:45,693 –> 00:20:47,453 kalen: not sp, uh, shopware, right,
387 00:20:47,620 –> 00:20:48,620 brent_peterson: not at Spriker.
388 00:20:48,573 –> 00:20:54,333 kalen: um, I was going to say spriker, um, um, uh, Geto moved to Spriker, right,
389 00:20:54,260 –> 00:20:55,260 390 00:20:54,833 –> 00:20:55,833 391 00:20:56,573 –> 00:21:02,653 kalen: So you know, um, Yeah, there’s just this like, Uh, You know a lot of people like
392 00:21:02,973 –> 00:21:09,453 kalen: Anton’s at Word Press at W, P engine, right, Pyoter is at. Is it Uh, w P,
393 00:21:09,600 –> 00:21:11,440 brent_peterson: I thought he’ at Big commerce. Yeah,
394 00:21:09,693 –> 00:21:13,213 kalen: engine, big Haer, for Yeah, first it was W P, and then big
395 00:21:13,140 –> 00:21:14,140 396 00:21:13,293 –> 00:21:14,413 kalen: commerce. Right, So it’s like
397 00:21:15,180 –> 00:21:16,180 brent_peterson: Yeah, I think
399 00:21:16,000 –> 00:21:19,120 brent_peterson: that you know, and when they get so large that those people are going to
400 00:21:19,120 –> 00:21:24,400 brent_peterson: come and go, And that’s just that’s the reality of what it is. And uh, you
401 00:21:24,480 –> 00:21:29,520 brent_peterson: know. The. The. I think the the key point there is that the community can’t
402 00:21:29,760 –> 00:21:36,560 brent_peterson: be made up of any one person or group of people at Adobe Slash Magento, And
403 00:21:36,720 –> 00:21:40,960 brent_peterson: the community never was made up of core people at Magento. The community
404 00:21:40,753 –> 00:21:41,753 405 00:21:41,360 –> 00:21:43,680 brent_peterson: was made up of our community, and if you
406 00:21:43,233 –> 00:21:44,233 407 00:21:43,760 –> 00:21:48,880 brent_peterson: look all the way back to that first imagin conference, Um, it was. you know,
408 00:21:48,960 –> 00:21:51,920 brent_peterson: a whole bunch of people from all over the world that made up that community,
409 00:21:52,593 –> 00:21:53,593 410 00:21:53,680 –> 00:21:56,080 brent_peterson: Germans and French people, and a few Americans.
411 00:21:56,673 –> 00:21:57,673 412 00:21:57,280 –> 00:22:02,400 brent_peterson: Um. That kind of that that start started there. or at least we the some of
413 00:22:02,480 –> 00:22:07,200 brent_peterson: the core people in that community, then, Um. and that that’s just continue
414 00:22:07,680 –> 00:22:09,840 brent_peterson: to change and and grow and
415 00:22:11,040 –> 00:22:12,800 brent_peterson: ebb and flow. Um, and
416 00:22:12,433 –> 00:22:13,433 417 00:22:12,960 –> 00:22:16,560 brent_peterson: people come and go and and join and leave and are interested and not
418 00:22:16,460 –> 00:22:17,460 419 00:22:18,160 –> 00:22:22,320 brent_peterson: But I think that’s that’s the key part of it and that’s where I think that’s
420 00:22:22,400 –> 00:22:29,600 brent_peterson: where Willm and Vn and and the team at Um at Whofa have have tapped into.
421 00:22:30,720 –> 00:22:33,840 brent_peterson: and now this open letter now has spurred something
422 00:22:34,880 –> 00:22:40,000 brent_peterson: that is, is causing people to at least raise their eyebrows. Wake up, you
425 00:22:41,520 –> 00:22:43,920 brent_peterson: and and take some notice. and something iss happening.
426 00:22:45,613 –> 00:22:50,173 kalen: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I’m even feeling re energized, you know, and and I, you know,
427 00:22:50,493 –> 00:22:54,653 kalen: I’ve got other stuff I’m starting to focus on. I always feel guilty that I, I don’t
428 00:22:55,293 –> 00:23:01,453 kalen: do. you know, Uh, do more for the association and different things like that. And um,
429 00:23:02,253 –> 00:23:07,213 kalen: you know I, I, I’ve drift. My interests have drifted, you know, as like a lot of
430 00:23:07,293 –> 00:23:13,693 kalen: people do. Um, but yeah, this whole thing has kind of got me all excited and
431 00:23:13,853 –> 00:23:15,053 kalen: bothered, you know,
432 00:23:16,093 –> 00:23:21,453 kalen: and got me you know, thinking about things and kind of thinking back to like. What is
433 00:23:21,613 –> 00:23:27,213 kalen: that original Magento community spirit that’s somehow being expressed? Um. here,
434 00:23:28,333 –> 00:23:30,813 kalen: Um, you know, a little bit of a rebellious
435 00:23:32,253 –> 00:23:36,493 kalen: spirit. It, or at least it kind of an independent. You know, there’s a real
436 00:23:36,573 –> 00:23:40,493 kalen: independent streak in the Magento community you know, and I think.
437 00:23:39,680 –> 00:23:44,400 brent_peterson: Yeah, and I think, Uh, you know Yov and and and Roy and Bob were all
438 00:23:45,520 –> 00:23:50,000 brent_peterson: very independent minded people who promoted that culture in our community.
439 00:23:50,380 –> 00:23:51,380 brent_peterson: And really
440 00:23:51,033 –> 00:23:52,033 441 00:23:51,680 –> 00:23:56,240 brent_peterson: the the key was that they promoted innovation that happened in it. And I
442 00:23:56,320 –> 00:24:00,400 brent_peterson: think the one thing that we are, we are sorely missing in Gentle
443 00:24:00,640 –> 00:24:06,000 brent_peterson: specifically is that drive from leadership and else, just say, leadership is
444 00:24:06,000 –> 00:24:10,080 brent_peterson: at the Adobe level here that drive to innovate and have the community
445 00:24:10,560 –> 00:24:14,880 brent_peterson: innovate, and the frustrations that you mentioned earlier around, maybe and
447 00:24:17,300 –> 00:24:18,300 448 00:24:19,040 –> 00:24:24,880 brent_peterson: If you can’t get a poll request done and looked at for a error, how what is
449 00:24:24,960 –> 00:24:28,720 brent_peterson: your chances of getting a poll request for something that is contributing
450 00:24:28,960 –> 00:24:33,200 brent_peterson: that is actually innovative to Magento rather than just fixing something?
452 00:24:36,173 –> 00:24:40,333 kalen: Yeah, totally. And and I don’t know, I don’t know what the realities are on the
453 00:24:40,333 –> 00:24:44,493 kalen: ground. I’m sure that they’ve got a a tough work load Is probably hard to manage all
454 00:24:44,653 –> 00:24:49,053 kalen: these issues and things that are coming in. There’s probably a lot of noise coming
455 00:24:48,753 –> 00:24:49,753 456 00:24:50,653 –> 00:24:56,893 kalen: so it’s probably a hard tricky thing to solve. But I don’t know. I just feel like if
457 00:24:57,053 –> 00:25:03,213 kalen: the community sort of just did their own fork, I kind of just feel like it would. It
458 00:25:03,293 –> 00:25:07,773 kalen: would just I want to believe that it would work better. And and maybe that’s naive?
459 00:25:08,013 –> 00:25:13,053 kalen: you know, maybe at this scale that’s completely naive. I don’t know. but I, I’m like,
460 00:25:13,773 –> 00:25:18,973 kalen: let’s do it. Let’s you know, let’s let’s see what this thing would be. You know.
461 00:25:20,000 –> 00:25:24,880 brent_peterson: Yeah, I’m not. I’m not uh. convinced on forking yet, Um. I, um. I, I would
462 00:25:25,120 –> 00:25:29,040 brent_peterson: like to have. I would like to have Adobe energized a little bit more
463 00:25:29,280 –> 00:25:35,440 brent_peterson: internally to kind of see some value in what the community can do, Um, and I
464 00:25:35,520 –> 00:25:38,320 brent_peterson: know that there’s an answer for whatever is out there,
465 00:25:39,360 –> 00:25:43,440 brent_peterson: Um to fix. And I think you know the reality too. Is that? what? what? I
466 00:25:43,520 –> 00:25:48,720 brent_peterson: don’t remember? What year they started publishing Um. G, the code on Github.
467 00:25:49,600 –> 00:25:53,840 brent_peterson: It wasn’t that long ago that we couldn’t even contribute to bug fixes. That
468 00:25:53,920 –> 00:25:56,160 brent_peterson: you had to email somebody and email your patch.
469 00:25:55,753 –> 00:25:56,753 470 00:25:56,400 –> 00:25:57,840 brent_peterson: and hopefully it got looked at.
471 00:25:58,353 –> 00:25:59,353 472 00:25:58,880 –> 00:26:03,440 brent_peterson: You know that that we where it’s been it’s It’s relatively new that we could
473 00:26:03,600 –> 00:26:09,360 brent_peterson: actually co. We could, we could do a Poquest and we could uh offer that as a
474 00:26:09,020 –> 00:26:10,020 475 00:26:10,713 –> 00:26:11,713 476 00:26:11,520 –> 00:26:15,840 brent_peterson: I think that they just need to make pay some attention to it, and you know
477 00:26:16,160 –> 00:26:19,840 brent_peterson: just really what it comes back down to, though is just communication and
478 00:26:20,000 –> 00:26:23,120 brent_peterson: transparency. If they were to come out and say hey, we don’t have enough
479 00:26:23,280 –> 00:26:26,400 brent_peterson: people to do this. We don’t have enough people to actually look at all these
480 00:26:26,560 –> 00:26:27,680 brent_peterson: bugs that you’re putting in.
481 00:26:28,573 –> 00:26:33,933 kalen: right, right. like people have asked. like, okay, Wh, What exactly these associations
482 00:26:34,093 –> 00:26:38,973 kalen: roll with open source? Is the association doing events only? are they going to be
483 00:26:39,293 –> 00:26:43,853 kalen: somehow, you know, in charge of open source. And then, like I think, it was said in
484 00:26:43,933 –> 00:26:48,253 kalen: the panel yesterday that like a dialogue was started with a doobe on the topic,
485 00:26:48,653 –> 00:26:52,973 kalen: right, What exactly does that mean that a dialogue was started like you’re saying
486 00:26:53,213 –> 00:26:58,973 kalen: Transparency. like. Okay, Who’s the person that is in charge of this when? like?
487 00:26:59,453 –> 00:27:05,213 kalen: like? When was the issue raised? How much time has passed? When when are we going to
488 00:27:05,293 –> 00:27:09,933 kalen: get an answer? You know, so I guess you’re I think you’re right From that perspective
489 00:27:10,093 –> 00:27:16,333 kalen: Is Is is like. If we could get transparency, Um, that would, that would be great and
490 00:27:16,413 –> 00:27:21,773 kalen: I don’t. I don’t think anybody there is like a bad guy like. I just think I don’t
491 00:27:21,853 –> 00:27:25,613 kalen: know. They probably have their own internal meetings and internal policies and
492 00:27:25,773 –> 00:27:31,133 kalen: they’re just doing their job. You know, But something is amiss
493 00:27:32,973 –> 00:27:40,333 kalen: so as something’s not aligned, so like, how can we? I don’t know how. I don’t know.
507 00:28:22,880 –> 00:28:26,400 brent_peterson: that that’s just not going to happen. So you know, I don’t know if that’s
508 00:28:26,560 –> 00:28:30,320 brent_peterson: goingnna get any better, and I don’t know why it would be any better in the
509 00:28:30,400 –> 00:28:34,000 brent_peterson: in A. in this Mag, major open source community alliance.
510 00:28:35,040 –> 00:28:39,200 brent_peterson: They were able to make that letter happen quickly because they only involved
511 00:28:39,360 –> 00:28:43,760 brent_peterson: the people that were there right. So, if we were to say and I, you know,
512 00:28:43,840 –> 00:28:46,880 brent_peterson: like I didn’t know. Apparently that letter was floating around for a week.
513 00:28:48,080 –> 00:28:54,000 brent_peterson: Um, so it was it was seen by a few people, which I can understand. But if
514 00:28:54,160 –> 00:28:58,080 brent_peterson: you were now to say okay, I want to have everybody see it. Okay. Well now
515 00:28:58,240 –> 00:28:59,840 brent_peterson: everybody’s going to have a different opinion,
516 00:29:00,193 –> 00:29:01,193 517 00:29:00,880 –> 00:29:05,440 brent_peterson: And and uh, suddenly you get mired down in in, Um,
518 00:29:06,480 –> 00:29:10,000 brent_peterson: in a whole bunch of you know what, not so good
519 00:29:09,533 –> 00:29:10,813 kalen: a whole bunch of moarchy.
520 00:29:11,120 –> 00:29:13,920 brent_peterson: molchy. That’s a great word. Thank you for that, Um,
521 00:29:15,440 –> 00:29:20,640 brent_peterson: and that moarchy. Then just keeps us, keeps our feet stuck and we can’t move
522 00:29:20,880 –> 00:29:24,160 brent_peterson: because we’re waiting to get out of this moarchy, where
523 00:29:24,113 –> 00:29:25,113 kalen: Yeah, yeah, I mean
524 00:29:24,480 –> 00:29:28,000 brent_peterson: if if you’ more, if you’re smaller and more agile, you can make those
525 00:29:28,240 –> 00:29:30,880 brent_peterson: decisions quickly and go forward. It’s kinda like
526 00:29:30,633 –> 00:29:31,633 527 00:29:31,360 –> 00:29:36,160 brent_peterson: it’s kinda like you know as a leader you need to make those decision. You
528 00:29:36,240 –> 00:29:40,400 brent_peterson: have to do it sometimes unilaterally, Uh, because you need to make ‘
529 00:29:40,220 –> 00:29:41,220 530 00:29:42,000 –> 00:29:47,040 brent_peterson: and as you know as somebody that is an entrepreneur, then that is part of
531 00:29:47,200 –> 00:29:50,320 brent_peterson: the culture. But if you’re looking at something where it’s a bigger
532 00:29:50,560 –> 00:29:54,720 brent_peterson: organization like Adobe or like Smith Buckland, and you have to follow a
533 00:29:54,800 –> 00:29:59,600 brent_peterson: whole set of rules, and uh, you have to go through every single step and
534 00:29:59,680 –> 00:30:01,920 brent_peterson: whoop, and there is no room
535 00:30:03,200 –> 00:30:05,520 brent_peterson: for for pushing the envelope, Because
536 00:30:06,340 –> 00:30:07,340 537 00:30:06,433 –> 00:30:07,433 538 00:30:07,040 –> 00:30:10,320 brent_peterson: will we do? Well, I guess you know what we really need here is Elon Musk,
539 00:30:12,173 –> 00:30:13,773 kalen: that’s what it comes back to.
540 00:30:12,960 –> 00:30:16,160 brent_peterson: He would say he would save Ma Gentta, open source.
541 00:30:16,973 –> 00:30:25,293 kalen: I mean, I think Willm is the Elon musk. You know, Um, which um, you know. I think you
542 00:30:25,193 –> 00:30:26,193 kalen: know that you need
543 00:30:27,133 –> 00:30:31,453 kalen: Um. I, I’m a big believer in what individuals can do right like you, you do through
544 00:30:31,613 –> 00:30:37,133 kalen: out the analogy of of Um, socialism, or kind of collectivism, which is kind of
545 00:30:37,373 –> 00:30:39,053 kalen: contrasted against kind of
546 00:30:40,093 –> 00:30:44,333 kalen: individual. What? what an individual or a small group of individuals can do right? I
547 00:30:44,413 –> 00:30:49,133 kalen: mean, I think of Laravelle, started by Taus, one guy, Taylor Otwell, you know, And
548 00:30:49,053 –> 00:30:55,053 kalen: and it’s it’s this huge ecosystem that’s grown, but he’s continued as the kind of B D
549 00:30:55,133 –> 00:31:00,893 kalen: F. â–l, You know the sort of benev benevolent dictator for life. And and it’s it’s
551 00:31:05,293 –> 00:31:07,373 kalen: whereas Magento is kind of Um,
552 00:31:08,413 –> 00:31:10,253 kalen: stagnated in in some ways,
553 00:31:11,693 –> 00:31:16,653 kalen: and anyway, I, you know, I just think that and I and I know he probably hates it
554 00:31:16,733 –> 00:31:22,093 kalen: every time I. I sort of make a big deal out of him individually. Um, because he’s
555 00:31:22,253 –> 00:31:27,293 kalen: trying to build a uh team and kind of, I think catalyze kind of a broader movement
556 00:31:27,613 –> 00:31:29,453 kalen: you know, but um,
557 00:31:30,493 –> 00:31:35,293 kalen: yeah, man, I mean, you know I, I think one person can can build something you know.
558 00:31:35,533 –> 00:31:39,773 kalen: Incredible. It’s like it’s like the mythical Man month. you know, I’m sure Doobe’s
559 00:31:39,853 –> 00:31:45,373 kalen: throwing tons of resources at various things. I’m sure if you looked at their burn
560 00:31:45,613 –> 00:31:51,293 kalen: charts and their budgets, they would be significant. But that doesn’t always mean
561 00:31:51,533 –> 00:31:56,813 kalen: that you know things are getting done And and I know that people on the association
562 00:31:56,973 –> 00:32:03,133 kalen: have put in a ton of effort a ton of time, a ton of blood tears. I just you know,
563 00:32:03,533 –> 00:32:09,053 kalen: that doesn’t always guarantee like results right. Sometimes one person or a small
564 00:32:09,293 –> 00:32:15,773 kalen: group of people can get stuff done super fast, right on on a on a shoes string
565 00:32:15,673 –> 00:32:16,673 566 00:32:18,733 –> 00:32:23,613 kalen: whereas the bigger incumbent right can spend a lot of money. Really a lot of time and
567 00:32:23,853 –> 00:32:26,733 kalen: not really go as fast. You
568 00:32:27,680 –> 00:32:30,720 brent_peterson: Yeah, no, I think you, you hit it there and there’ two sides of that whole
569 00:32:30,960 –> 00:32:36,160 brent_peterson: thing about about collective collectivism. There is a broad community that
570 00:32:36,320 –> 00:32:41,920 brent_peterson: can support a A. a. a, Um, a dream of somebody. and that that broad
571 00:32:42,160 –> 00:32:46,160 brent_peterson: community it kind come together in the terms of Magento and fix a whole
572 00:32:46,240 –> 00:32:51,360 brent_peterson: bunch of bugs. Right, uh, but if that, but what that broad community can’t
573 00:32:51,520 –> 00:32:52,800 brent_peterson: do as a community
574 00:32:53,700 –> 00:32:54,700 575 00:32:55,360 –> 00:33:00,560 brent_peterson: C is is always agree on what is the next best thing that we. What is the
576 00:33:00,640 –> 00:33:06,400 brent_peterson: next big thing that we should do for our community to move us forward. Um,
577 00:33:06,640 –> 00:33:09,040 brent_peterson: because you are always going to have somebody that is more
578 00:33:10,400 –> 00:33:14,400 brent_peterson: all, used a word conservative and liberal. Uh, not in the political sense,
579 00:33:14,640 –> 00:33:17,520 brent_peterson: but just if you think about it, the people would like. Some people in our
580 00:33:17,600 –> 00:33:20,560 brent_peterson: community would like it to stay the way it has been, and some people would
581 00:33:20,720 –> 00:33:23,680 brent_peterson: like to grow into new things. And there’s new people coming to the community
582 00:33:24,080 –> 00:33:27,680 brent_peterson: that know. Don’t care about what happened in Magenta One. they, they’re
583 00:33:27,760 –> 00:33:30,560 brent_peterson: they’re in. They’re involved in a genento, too. Uh,
585 00:33:30,720 –> 00:33:34,080 brent_peterson: and they would like to see that. So there’s all kinds of opposing views that
586 00:33:34,160 –> 00:33:38,880 brent_peterson: are happening. So the two sides are are the broad community, Help support it
587 00:33:39,200 –> 00:33:44,080 brent_peterson: and maintain it, and and make sure that we’re we’re growing. In a flat
588 00:33:44,400 –> 00:33:47,520 brent_peterson: sense. You know we’re growing. but it’s it’s really just maintaining
589 00:33:47,760 –> 00:33:51,840 brent_peterson: something. Then there’s the little people that are poking things at it that
590 00:33:51,920 –> 00:33:54,720 brent_peterson: are lighting fighters here and there, like the Hofa theme,
591 00:33:55,153 –> 00:33:56,153 592 00:33:55,680 –> 00:33:59,600 brent_peterson: And those people are the ones that are sticking out that are making things
610 00:34:57,200 –> 00:35:00,720 brent_peterson: Maybe there’s some people that want that and I, you know, I think that the
611 00:35:00,880 –> 00:35:03,680 brent_peterson: idea that that between p w a and hufah,
612 00:35:04,720 –> 00:35:11,120 brent_peterson: uh, a bolted on theme versus a a p w A’s theme. Um, you know that’s just the
613 00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:13,200 brent_peterson: beginning of making it more complicated
614 00:35:14,240 –> 00:35:20,160 brent_peterson: and does, does it? Um. Does it make it so much more complicated that people
615 00:35:20,180 –> 00:35:21,180 brent_peterson: aren’t going to use it?
616 00:35:22,973 –> 00:35:25,613 kalen: Yeah, I mean, that’s kind of the million dollar question like
617 00:35:27,773 –> 00:35:32,253 kalen: I don’t know, you know, I mean I. I. I did some stuff with like Laraville, which uh
618 00:35:32,413 –> 00:35:37,133 kalen: bundles all sorts of uh, modern jaasript stuff that I wasn’t familiar with Web,
619 00:35:38,413 –> 00:35:43,133 kalen: all sorts of stuff that I just was not at all familiar with and it mostly just worked
620 00:35:43,533 –> 00:35:47,373 kalen: right out of the box because they had it configured and packaged in a way that it was
621 00:35:47,453 –> 00:35:53,933 kalen: easy to get up and running and kind of on boarded me into this tool set. And um, my
622 00:35:54,093 –> 00:35:58,573 kalen: sense is that it’s sort of the exact opposite case with a lot of Theo stuff where
623 00:35:58,733 –> 00:36:02,973 kalen: it’s you. Things just take a long time to get to get going,
624 00:36:04,093 –> 00:36:08,253 kalen: and the complexity is slowing every you know everybody down.
625 00:36:09,233 –> 00:36:10,233 626 00:36:11,293 –> 00:36:14,413 kalen: I. I. I don’t know. I mean you, you would know better than I would you know what the
627 00:36:14,493 –> 00:36:19,853 kalen: pros and cons are to the isolated services. Um it it. It just seems like there’s this
628 00:36:20,013 –> 00:36:25,693 kalen: contingent that is saying. Let’s keep it simple. Um, Which makes sense to me. keep it
629 00:36:25,773 –> 00:36:30,973 kalen: simple. Stupid, Um, and I, I don’t know. It seems like the Enterprise Commerce
630 00:36:31,133 –> 00:36:34,093 kalen: edition. Whatever the heck is being called These days. They still call it Enterprise.
631 00:36:34,813 –> 00:36:37,853 kalen: Um, Is kind of Adobe Commerce.
632 00:36:38,893 –> 00:36:43,293 kalen: Enterprise Edition Is is. Can it be like a different thing? It just feels like it’s
633 00:36:43,373 –> 00:36:45,853 kalen: going to be an entirely different thing from
634 00:36:46,433 –> 00:36:47,433 635 00:36:48,013 –> 00:36:53,133 kalen: Magento is Now. I mean, why not just have it become an entirely different thing
636 00:36:53,293 –> 00:36:58,013 kalen: written in Jaa Micro serviceerists. I, I mean, I’m hearing that it’s going to be
637 00:36:58,093 –> 00:37:01,053 kalen: getting rewritten a Java or something like that. I don’t know where I heard that
638 00:37:01,133 –> 00:37:02,333 kalen: from, but um,
639 00:37:02,400 –> 00:37:04,240 brent_peterson: Well, you’re in Austin. So you should know?
640 00:37:04,893 –> 00:37:08,093 kalen: I should know these things. you know, I hear things I hear a little.
641 00:37:07,440 –> 00:37:10,480 brent_peterson: what Do you? You should be hanging out at the coffee shops? Although a Doobe
642 00:37:10,800 –> 00:37:14,080 brent_peterson: employees hang out and you should be overly overhearing their conversations.
643 00:37:14,813 –> 00:37:18,013 kalen: Well, maybe that’s what I do. Maybe that’s where this is coming from.
655 00:38:05,120 –> 00:38:08,320 brent_peterson: That’s all. I mean that what youve just said would solve everybody’s
656 00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:11,840 brent_peterson: problem, because if they did that, then sure be that people would fork it,
657 00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:17,040 brent_peterson: and we’d be off to the races with to open Source and the Ma,
658 00:38:18,080 –> 00:38:21,280 brent_peterson: or a Doobe commerce. then would its own little beast
659 00:38:22,320 –> 00:38:25,520 brent_peterson: that would live on on on through the Adobe world.
660 00:38:26,033 –> 00:38:27,033 661 00:38:26,960 –> 00:38:31,520 brent_peterson: I don’t know if Adobe would want to do that because I think they’ also left.
662 00:38:32,400 –> 00:38:37,040 brent_peterson: Uh, you know a patchy sling there, which is the undering experience manager
663 00:38:36,900 –> 00:38:37,900 664 00:38:37,393 –> 00:38:38,393 665 00:38:39,853 –> 00:38:44,573 kalen: you know I. I. I actually had a conversation with Dame and Retsgrey yesterday. Um, I
666 00:38:44,573 –> 00:38:50,013 kalen: don’t know if you know him, but he’s a. He’s a. He’s a cool guy and uh, he, um, it’s
667 00:38:50,093 –> 00:38:55,213 kalen: not live yet, but um, he was saying something really interesting, which is that a uh.
668 00:38:55,293 –> 00:39:01,133 kalen: Magento is kind of like open source, but not exactly in the sense that a lot of these
669 00:39:01,293 –> 00:39:04,973 kalen: architectural decisions right, like I heard from. I think one or two different
670 00:39:05,213 –> 00:39:09,373 kalen: people. The thing about Java. Okay, not going to say who, Because again, that’s kind
671 00:39:09,453 –> 00:39:13,693 kalen: of the nature of this beast is that it’s like you know a guy and you have a
672 00:39:13,773 –> 00:39:17,773 kalen: conversation with some person. But it’s off the record because they’re not supposed
673 00:39:17,853 –> 00:39:23,293 kalen: to be what right. And this is sort of exactly how open source is not supposed to
674 00:39:23,373 –> 00:39:27,773 kalen: work. Everything should be discussed out in the open. It should all be discussed on
675 00:39:27,853 –> 00:39:32,573 kalen: Github. Whoever was talking about rewriting it in Java, if in K. If they were in
676 00:39:32,733 –> 00:39:38,333 kalen: fact, that should just be discussed openly right look, but there’s all these backroom
677 00:39:38,653 –> 00:39:43,693 kalen: conversations right. there’s the partner ecosystem. There’s always these backroom
678 00:39:43,933 –> 00:39:48,493 kalen: conversations and part of that is, Uh, you know, there’s a closer relationship
679 00:39:48,813 –> 00:39:52,333 kalen: between partners and that’s that can be a good thing. That can be a feature, not a
680 00:39:52,413 –> 00:39:57,373 kalen: bug. but it’s it’s also just kind of. you know. it’s kind of wacky. The whole thing.
681 00:39:57,953 –> 00:39:58,953 682 00:39:59,700 –> 00:40:00,700 683 00:40:00,353 –> 00:40:01,353 kalen: you know, it’s kind of
684 00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:02,640 brent_peterson: that’s back to somebody’s got to make a decision.
685 00:40:03,713 –> 00:40:04,713 686 00:40:04,720 –> 00:40:08,880 brent_peterson: At some point, the decisions the the moving forward decisions have to be
687 00:40:08,960 –> 00:40:13,840 brent_peterson: made, and they shouldn’t involve every single person in the whole world. You
688 00:40:13,380 –> 00:40:14,380 689 00:40:14,173 –> 00:40:15,373 kalen: Well, okay, I mean
690 00:40:14,400 –> 00:40:17,120 brent_peterson: there, there’s going to have to be a group of leaders that that do that, and
691 00:40:17,200 –> 00:40:20,320 brent_peterson: they’re going to have to make that decision and then live with the live with
692 00:40:20,100 –> 00:40:21,100 brent_peterson: that decision.
693 00:40:23,193 –> 00:40:24,193 kalen: you could be R. I
694 00:40:24,253 –> 00:40:28,333 kalen: mean, yeah, I mean, you know that’s where leadership is. That’s where leadership is
695 00:40:24,320 –> 00:40:25,520 brent_peterson: That’s what leadership is.
696 00:40:28,493 –> 00:40:32,973 kalen: and in business, that’s that’s how sort of business works. Um, you know, you’ve been
697 00:40:33,053 –> 00:40:36,893 kalen: a business owner for many years and you’ve had to make those types of decisions and
718 00:41:27,373 –> 00:41:31,693 kalen: Oh, there’s no nucleus or there’s no center of gravity right,
719 00:41:30,880 –> 00:41:34,720 brent_peterson: Right, he had that big speech and Karen Baker did the same thing about how
720 00:41:34,880 –> 00:41:37,920 brent_peterson: our community’s falling apart And uh, you know, I
721 00:41:37,553 –> 00:41:38,553 722 00:41:38,000 –> 00:41:42,080 brent_peterson: think those are the times where Um where maybe it is splintering and and
723 00:41:42,240 –> 00:41:47,200 brent_peterson: having those people stand up and talk about it brings us together again.
724 00:41:49,100 –> 00:41:50,100 brent_peterson: So but is it
725 00:41:49,713 –> 00:41:50,713 726 00:41:50,160 –> 00:41:53,520 brent_peterson: splintering is? Yes, of course, it’s always splintering. People are going
727 00:41:53,680 –> 00:41:55,680 brent_peterson: off in their own directions and so
741 00:42:33,760 –> 00:42:38,080 brent_peterson: everybody’. not going to have the exact same opinion about everything. So
742 00:42:37,713 –> 00:42:38,713 743 00:42:38,240 –> 00:42:40,320 brent_peterson: what does splintering the mean?
744 00:42:43,053 –> 00:42:44,333 kalen: Yeah, I think
745 00:42:45,773 –> 00:42:49,933 kalen: I go back to Larriville, because I’m Ca. I, That’s the other the closest analogue I
746 00:42:50,013 –> 00:42:56,173 kalen: have. You’ve got one leader, Taylor Otwell, who is incredible. He, every year he
747 00:42:56,333 –> 00:43:02,733 kalen: reads the entire code base line by line. That’s how committed this dut is. Everybody
748 00:43:03,213 –> 00:43:07,133 kalen: respects them as the like. A Lot of open source projects need to have a leader, right
749 00:43:07,293 –> 00:43:13,533 kalen: a B d f, â–l and Um. Lius Torvalts. Right. You think of these people and
750 00:43:14,893 –> 00:43:19,693 kalen: Um, or or companies need a founder. You know, you know you have a founder that’s led
751 00:43:19,853 –> 00:43:27,373 kalen: the company from day one and I, I feel like that is is kind of an important thing. We
752 00:43:27,453 –> 00:43:32,173 kalen: don’t have that right now. Um, although I think maybe that’s Willm, That’s my
753 00:43:32,253 –> 00:43:34,653 kalen: campaign, William for B. D f. â–l, but
754 00:43:37,313 –> 00:43:38,313 kalen: I don’t know. I mean
755 00:43:39,293 –> 00:43:44,253 kalen: yeah, I mean yes, Th. this would. This could splinter things. I guess
756 00:43:45,693 –> 00:43:47,693 kalen: um, I, I think organically.
757 00:43:48,813 –> 00:43:54,573 kalen: if if it was successful, it would start to pick up steam. And then maybe people that
758 00:43:54,733 –> 00:43:59,133 kalen: were not as interested in it would start to find a use case for it right.
759 00:44:01,133 –> 00:44:06,093 kalen: I mean, what about commerce and open source? Is that a splintering? is that A? Is
760 00:44:06,173 –> 00:44:07,533 kalen: that a splintering of the community?
761 00:44:08,653 –> 00:44:09,773 kalen: You know. I mean you. re.
762 00:44:09,600 –> 00:44:12,640 brent_peterson: I mean a commerce and open source is just a name. and that’s been around
763 00:44:12,500 –> 00:44:13,500 764 00:44:15,280 –> 00:44:16,880 brent_peterson: Enterprise came out in twenty ten
765 00:44:17,633 –> 00:44:18,633 766 00:44:18,560 –> 00:44:24,080 brent_peterson: and know the reality is thato has to make money so they have to pay. They
767 00:44:24,140 –> 00:44:25,140 brent_peterson: have to pay the bills,
768 00:44:25,933 –> 00:44:29,053 kalen: Yeah, money is good. Money’s money is important.
769 00:44:31,073 –> 00:44:32,073 770 00:44:32,513 –> 00:44:33,513 771 00:44:34,173 –> 00:44:39,133 kalen: I guess I. I think the point you raise is is interesting to me. Is like everybody’s
772 00:44:39,293 –> 00:44:41,693 kalen: always saying that everything is splintering the the community
773 00:44:43,053 –> 00:44:48,333 kalen: and the argument the association is making is listen, guys. We have been working for
774 00:44:48,413 –> 00:44:53,293 kalen: three years now to create this association to put some structure in place to foster
775 00:44:53,533 –> 00:44:59,213 kalen: dialogues and you guys are trying to blow it all up and you guys are saying Oh, we’re
776 00:44:59,293 –> 00:45:04,413 kalen: just going to do our own thing, And they’re saying we want you to work with us right
777 00:45:04,733 –> 00:45:10,013 kalen: as the association to communicate these things in a in a clear way to Adobe.
778 00:45:11,453 –> 00:45:18,173 kalen: And and I feel, and like I get that. But the same time it’s like
779 00:45:19,293 –> 00:45:22,013 kalen: there’s so much pent up frustration
780 00:45:23,453 –> 00:45:27,613 kalen: and ankt in the community And it’s just like
781 00:45:28,973 –> 00:45:35,133 kalen: it’s sort of spontaneously combusting. I feel like. In some ways you know
782 00:45:34,720 –> 00:45:35,840 brent_peterson: But doesn’t it feel like
783 00:45:36,940 –> 00:45:37,940 brent_peterson: that’s what happening
784 00:45:38,960 –> 00:45:40,160 brent_peterson: every time this happens.
785 00:45:42,173 –> 00:45:44,333 kalen: what do you mean? What do you
786 00:45:43,280 –> 00:45:46,880 brent_peterson: I mean it feels like the things are falling apart when this
787 00:45:46,513 –> 00:45:47,513 788 00:45:46,740 –> 00:45:47,740 789 00:45:48,400 –> 00:45:52,080 brent_peterson: When it felt like when Um Ebay bought Mago,
790 00:45:53,760 –> 00:45:59,760 brent_peterson: they had that â–x Commerce conference and then the next year it wasn’t I to a
791 00:45:59,840 –> 00:46:04,800 brent_peterson: man conference. It was just imagine. like Magento came out of it completely
792 00:46:05,180 –> 00:46:06,180 brent_peterson: right. Like
799 00:46:22,720 –> 00:46:28,000 brent_peterson: like it was getting sucked into some beheemth like Ebay, and and we’re never
800 00:46:27,940 –> 00:46:28,940 brent_peterson: going to get it back.
801 00:46:30,413 –> 00:46:36,973 kalen: I think that the corporate overlords, they keep trying to sort of absorb Mago. and
802 00:46:37,053 –> 00:46:39,613 kalen: then it just doesn’t just can’t happen.
803 00:46:41,133 –> 00:46:47,133 kalen: Like, like I said man, the community is rebellious. We’d like to do our own thing. We
804 00:46:47,213 –> 00:46:54,013 kalen: have our own hive mind. You know we’re going to keep fighting. You know, we’re go to
805 00:46:54,173 –> 00:46:58,333 kalen: keep. We’re going to keep forking. You know, it’s going to keep aing
806 00:46:59,120 –> 00:47:01,040 brent_peterson: Yep, uh, you know. think about um.
807 00:47:02,160 –> 00:47:06,240 brent_peterson: think about you. Think about these business leaders that are making these
808 00:47:06,480 –> 00:47:11,600 brent_peterson: decisions that don’t give uh, rats. Whatever about Magento. They bought
809 00:47:11,760 –> 00:47:14,960 brent_peterson: Magento in in the sense that they needed, and they wanted a commerce
810 00:47:15,200 –> 00:47:20,000 brent_peterson: platform to to go into the Um, broader Uh portfolio for a doobe,
811 00:47:20,433 –> 00:47:21,433 812 00:47:20,960 –> 00:47:24,640 brent_peterson: Uh, and what? they could have chose some other platform. That’s a Sass
813 00:47:24,800 –> 00:47:28,000 brent_peterson: platform. They could have chose something like Big commerce or whatever is
814 00:47:28,160 –> 00:47:33,680 brent_peterson: out there. They chose a Ma genento and it’s a Ph P platform. I don’t. I’m
815 00:47:33,840 –> 00:47:38,400 brent_peterson: just, I’m just putting out my guesses here. I’m guessing they didn’t think
816 00:47:38,640 –> 00:47:42,800 brent_peterson: about. Hey, this is Ph P. and none of the other products on a doob or Ph. H.
817 00:47:42,500 –> 00:47:43,500 818 00:47:44,080 –> 00:47:47,520 brent_peterson: Right they? they didn’t think of any that. I’m sure they looked at a bunch
819 00:47:47,460 –> 00:47:48,460 brent_peterson: of factors
820 00:47:48,673 –> 00:47:49,673 821 00:47:49,120 –> 00:47:53,840 brent_peterson: that made it F. from a business standpoint Make made it make sense.
822 00:47:55,840 –> 00:47:59,360 brent_peterson: And then the next thing after that you have a whole bunch of managers that
823 00:47:59,440 –> 00:48:01,360 brent_peterson: make decision. Ions that again,
824 00:48:02,480 –> 00:48:05,840 brent_peterson: don’t necessarily a line with where Magento was.
825 00:48:07,200 –> 00:48:10,400 brent_peterson: They just are looking at where they would like it to be,
826 00:48:11,520 –> 00:48:17,200 brent_peterson: not necessarily thinking about how it got there and how it’s going to get
827 00:48:17,440 –> 00:48:22,240 brent_peterson: maintained. in terms of hey, you know we have three hundred thousand people
828 00:48:22,400 –> 00:48:27,600 brent_peterson: that care about it. Um, are we going to upset them if we start doing this or
829 00:48:27,680 –> 00:48:30,800 brent_peterson: are we going? Are they going to feel shut out when we stop talking
830 00:48:30,740 –> 00:48:31,740 831 00:48:32,433 –> 00:48:33,433 832 00:48:34,273 –> 00:48:35,273 833 00:48:34,500 –> 00:48:35,500 834 00:48:34,893 –> 00:48:37,053 kalen: do you mean when we stoped talking altogether,
835 00:48:37,440 –> 00:48:41,360 brent_peterson: well, you know, if if we look at this as being a communications problem and
836 00:48:41,440 –> 00:48:44,640 brent_peterson: the communication is just there, not telling us what’s going to be happening
837 00:48:44,800 –> 00:48:49,840 brent_peterson: in the future with Magento, they are there really in. in a sense, not really
838 00:48:49,820 –> 00:48:50,820 brent_peterson: telling us
839 00:48:51,680 –> 00:48:56,400 brent_peterson: where they where where it’s going right. We don’t know necessarily where
842 00:48:57,940 –> 00:48:58,940 843 00:49:00,320 –> 00:49:04,960 brent_peterson: and that is, uh, a concern that the community has, because they would like
844 00:49:05,200 –> 00:49:07,440 brent_peterson: people would like to know where it’s going,
845 00:49:07,953 –> 00:49:08,953 846 00:49:08,480 –> 00:49:13,520 brent_peterson: and even more than I, I think few people want to be included in that they
847 00:49:13,600 –> 00:49:16,400 brent_peterson: want to feel that. if it’s a community you want to feel like you’re included
848 00:49:16,220 –> 00:49:17,220 brent_peterson: in the community
849 00:49:18,560 –> 00:49:22,640 brent_peterson: And if you don’t know what’s happening and the decisions are being made and
860 00:49:44,880 –> 00:49:46,480 brent_peterson: next episode on shopware.
861 00:49:47,233 –> 00:49:48,233 862 00:49:48,813 –> 00:49:52,973 kalen: I don’t know the first thing about shopper, other than I think it’s the next Magento,
950 00:53:33,120 –> 00:53:37,360 brent_peterson: um, I heard that Laravell was named after a guy named Larry Vll.
951 00:53:39,380 –> 00:53:40,380 brent_peterson: Did you hear that
952 00:53:43,533 –> 00:53:45,293 kalen: I, I did not.
953 00:53:46,240 –> 00:53:48,720 brent_peterson: Uh v e I, â–l,
954 00:53:50,300 –> 00:53:51,300 brent_peterson: and Um,
955 00:53:52,160 –> 00:53:56,800 brent_peterson: if it would, it would have been Larry Vile, like Vale, Colorado, otherwise,
956 00:53:56,500 –> 00:53:57,500 957 00:53:56,673 –> 00:53:57,673 958 00:53:57,120 –> 00:53:59,200 brent_peterson: now it’s Larry Vlle, and they just shortened it.
959 00:54:01,120 –> 00:54:02,480 brent_peterson: Did you hear that same rumor
960 00:54:04,080 –> 00:54:06,560 brent_peterson: like his neighbor’s name was Larry Vlle.
961 00:54:08,413 –> 00:54:10,653 kalen: please tell serious. Are you serious?
962 00:54:11,060 –> 00:54:12,060 963 00:54:14,013 –> 00:54:19,853 kalen: How did you get me? I was like the very last minute I was like, Oh my God, he’s
964 00:54:19,633 –> 00:54:20,633 965 00:54:20,960 –> 00:54:23,920 brent_peterson: Yeah, we made through this whole episode without any jokes.
971 00:54:31,453 –> 00:54:34,013 kalen: dad joker on the planet.
972 00:54:34,500 –> 00:54:35,500 brent_peterson: I’ve been told that,
973 00:54:37,293 –> 00:54:40,973 kalen: Just when I think I have you figured out, you throw me for a loop. you know,
974 00:54:40,820 –> 00:54:41,820 975 00:54:42,640 –> 00:54:47,280 brent_peterson: uh, speaking of, Uh, of well, so coup a couple of things as we close out.
976 00:54:47,600 –> 00:54:52,960 brent_peterson: Um, If if Willilm is our eelon musk, it is going to be infinitely less
977 00:54:53,200 –> 00:54:58,960 brent_peterson: expensive for him to shoot the Hofa theme into space than it was for Elo to
978 00:54:59,040 –> 00:55:01,440 brent_peterson: shoot his first tessin to space, right,
1006 00:56:05,693 –> 00:56:07,773 kalen: Oh God, thank you. Did you
1007 00:56:07,420 –> 00:56:08,420 1008 00:56:07,853 –> 00:56:09,613 kalen: do that as you come up with that one yourself.
1009 00:56:09,760 –> 00:56:12,640 brent_peterson: I don’t come up with any of my jokes myself. No,
1010 00:56:11,213 –> 00:56:14,973 kalen: You don’t come up with any of them, but you deliver them like an absolute champion.
1011 00:56:15,280 –> 00:56:18,400 brent_peterson: yeah, that’s the only that I don’t even know if that’s my talent.
1012 00:56:18,913 –> 00:56:19,913 1013 00:56:19,460 –> 00:56:20,460 brent_peterson: I don’t think it is.
1014 00:56:20,653 –> 00:56:23,053 kalen: I, no, I wouldn’t â–quit your day job.
1015 00:56:22,160 –> 00:56:26,880 brent_peterson: I do come up with spontaneous jokes. Uh, and I do have to explain them. I
1016 00:56:26,960 –> 00:56:28,160 brent_peterson: think that’s the best part of it,
1017 00:56:30,893 –> 00:56:33,453 kalen: It is the best part, ladies and ja.
1018 00:56:32,240 –> 00:56:34,560 brent_peterson: my, my best joke, my best joke.
1019 00:56:34,113 –> 00:56:35,113 1020 00:56:34,800 –> 00:56:37,440 brent_peterson: When I’m running, I know we’re over now, but uh, I
1021 00:56:37,453 –> 00:56:39,053 kalen: no, no, no, we have all the time in the world
1022 00:56:37,520 –> 00:56:42,960 brent_peterson: do. I do my long runs. Um, and oftenims we outut with, I’m with the new Sam
1023 00:56:43,120 –> 00:56:45,920 brent_peterson: Muth, a new group of people and we’re doing twenty miles or something like
1024 00:56:45,540 –> 00:56:46,540 1025 00:56:46,193 –> 00:56:47,193 1026 00:56:47,520 –> 00:56:54,880 brent_peterson: I wait until Mile eighteen and I, My advice is always running is always
1027 00:56:55,600 –> 00:56:59,440 brent_peterson: running. Is is is, uh, ninety percent mental
1028 00:57:00,033 –> 00:57:01,033 1029 00:57:00,480 –> 00:57:05,120 brent_peterson: and the last fifteen percent is in your head, and I leave it at that and we
1030 00:57:05,280 –> 00:57:07,360 brent_peterson: just keep going. And then if they’re
1031 00:57:07,273 –> 00:57:08,273 kalen: I love it
1032 00:57:07,440 –> 00:57:12,480 brent_peterson: paying attention at all what I say, they will question my math, but a lot of
1033 00:57:07,440 –> 00:57:12,480 brent_peterson: paying attention at all what I say, they will question my math, but a lot of
1034 00:57:12,560 –> 00:57:15,520 brent_peterson: times they’re not, They’re not at the point where they could think straight,
1035 00:57:12,560 –> 00:57:15,520 brent_peterson: times they’re not, They’re not at the point where they could think straight,
1036 00:57:15,380 –> 00:57:16,380 1037 00:57:15,380 –> 00:57:16,380 1038 00:57:15,693 –> 00:57:17,933 kalen: they don’t. They don’t catch it, kind of like I didn’t
1039 00:57:17,580 –> 00:57:18,580 1040 00:57:18,093 –> 00:57:21,773 kalen: catch your my sequel joke. They just kind of go like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
1044 00:57:23,860 –> 00:57:24,860 1045 00:57:25,053 –> 00:57:29,453 kalen: I love it. I love it, ladies and gentlemen, Brant Peterson, All done here, were
1046 00:57:29,613 –> 00:57:30,973 kalen: wrapping it up over and out.
Today I have Jisse Reitsma from Yireo. Jisse and I have an open conversation around Mage Open Source Community Alliance and some reactions to the letter. We talk about the reaction from the Magento Association and talk a little about what could make it better. If you are interested in talking about this subject, please reach out to brent@brentwpeterson
The discussion on this week’s podcast focuses on the current issues developers are facing with Adobe and Magento. Two main issues discussed were the transparency of Adobe and the monolith and modularity dichotomy.
The Mage Open Source Community Alliance (MOSCA) open letter to the community sought to show that developers care about the Adobe products and believe that the open-source code that drives their products is neglected. Developers are accustomed to accessing a roadmap of the software shared with the broader community, which shows transparency, and some don’t believe that they are receiving that transparency with Magento.
It is believed that open source development lies in the hands of developers, and instead of just talking about the changes that they want to see, they can make it happen. That is one point that the open letter drove home. However, at this point, the change seems to be happening without actually any organization.
An important question in all this discussion is if there is indeed a split, who would own the trademark? Who is going to be the owner of the source codes? Who will be responsible for fixing the bugs as they arise?
If Adobe is not becoming more transparent in their decision-making, if there’s not a roadmap being published upon opensource, assuming that there is one, then actually the community will not see which way the whole Magento opensource thing is growing. Then, in the end, that’s going to mean that many people are just so unsure about a fundamental something that they’re either going to leave or create a fork or are going to stick with even Magento one. And that’s the direction we don’t want to go to. Something needs to change.
While some developers believe there is no need for a monolith, others believe it is functional. The proposed decomposition of the monolith by Magento does not leave developers with a choice. It is suggested that developers be given an option to decide whether or not they want to go the route of the monolith or modularity. It boils down to deprecating or not deprecating.
There are a lot of Magento merchants that use the software, and a lot of those merchants feel uneasy about where their version of Magento is going. A question that they have is if Magento gets more complicated, does that mean that it would get more expensive for them to run their store?
Some proposed solutions to having Adobe communicate and be more transparent with the community are having a monthly bulletin, utilizing social media, and employing a social media and marketing committee to keep the community informed. This way, developers could openly share their ideas and grow on them like trading at a bazaar. What is currently happening is that the discussion is taking place in a cathedral manner. There’s a lot of conversing and what comes out is a filtered down smooth message that doesn’t have teeth and is unopinionated. The beauty is that the community is in charge of the innovation, and the Magento association should bring it out.
What it comes down to is just more communication and transparency from Adobe would solve these problems.
This week we interview Joseph Maxwell and discuss his new book, “The Art of Ecommerce Debugging” The video version of the podcast includes an exclusive unboxing of the book. Joseph goes over his motivation for writing this book and how it will help developers be better developers!
Joseph discusses the mindset of resolving problems. We go over TAD (You can listen to know what that means). We talk about work-life balance and how Joseph handles this. We talk about documenting your code. Joseph gives his top 5 things developers should do. (Hint number one is XDebug). The one thing to double your productivity is XDEBUG! Joseph talks about Magento certifications and why this is so important. Why NOT get certified?
This week we host a panel with Amazon Web Services and Wagento on how Wagento was successful in launching more than 200 stores on AWS and Magento. Kenny Rajan – AWS Senior Solutions Architect runs us through the benefits of AWS and why you should host your Magento store on the AWS Platform.
Brent walks us through the solution that was brought to Universal Music Group to help launch 200 Magento stores in a short amount of time. If you are listening to the podcast, you can find the slides on the website at Talk-Commerce.com
This week we interview Monika Milewska and Antoni Paszkow (who is no stranger to the subject of self-defense).
They are with the Magento development company Magently in Poland. We discuss their recent store launch of https://www.partcatalog.com/ on the Hyva theme. We learned that the time to develop the new theme in Hyva was half that of a new theme in the Blank theme during their Magento1 to Magento2 migration.
Antoni shares his developer experience, and Monika gives us some great performance numbers. They started with a score of 10 on Mobile and ended up with a score of 97!
What is Hyva?
Hyvä comes from the Finnish language and literally means “good”. But also “desirable” and “advisable”. Here’s how it’s pronounced.
We didn’t name our company Hyvä because we think we are that good, it has an intrinsic meaning that’s embedded into our work. We set out to build the best Magento products we possibly can. We want to build products that are really really good. “Said Willem Wigman Founder and creator of Hyvä Themes.”
Our products bring value to merchants, developers, agencies, and ultimately: end-users for your Magento-based website.
How Hyva reduces the time to market
By reducing the amount of Javascript on the site and simplifying the frontend development process, Hyva can reduce your time to market by 4-5 times. This allows developers to use the tools they need on the pages they need them rather than making every page use every tool every time.
This not only increases the performance of the developer, but it also increases the performance of the website dramatically!
Why Magento needs a new theme
The original Magento 2 theme was developed in the early 2010s and has not been updated from a framework/technical standpoint since the launch of Magento 2 in late 2015. In the last 5-6 years the technology and shifted and improved and Magento has not followed. In addition, Adobe Commerce is now focusing all its efforts on the Progressive Web App Studio. This means that the base theme is only getting security updates. The default, out-of-the-box Magento theme is sadly fallen by the wayside and will not be enhanced or upgraded.
Some highlights are as follows:
Reduced Complexity. Hyvä Magento 2 themes are powerful and feature-rich but yet simple. Reduced complexity is the number one principle they incorporate.
Enhanced Performance. E-commerce shoppers never forget slow websites. Therefore, fast-working web pages are another goal hidden behind all Hyvä products. To achieve it, these Magento 2 themes incorporate the principle of enhanced performance and increased efficiency.
Improved Developer Experience. A developer-friendly work-environment is also among the benefits of Hyvä Magento 2 themes.
Improved Development Velocity. Reduced complexity multiplied by good work conditions let your coders implement and customize Hyvä Magento 2 themes much faster than other similar solutions. As a result, you reduce average time-to-market metrics and costs.
Reduced Dependencies. As we’ve just mentioned above, Hyvä Magento 2 themes contain only two dependencies. Thus, they are way more reliable than most alternative solutions.
Reduced Learning Curve. All the principles mentioned above let you reduce the learning curve necessary to master Hyvä Magento 2 themes. It won’t take much time until you become a specialist in the Hyvä Magento 2 themes development
You can learn more about developing on the Hyva theme here at Rock Technolabs.
Welcome to this special tech edition of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in.
This week we interview Joseph Leedy with Wagento Creative. We Discuss Magento extensions and integrations and look at the difference between the two. Joseph helps us understand why merchants need to take some extra time to vet any new extension they install on their website and developers need to be prepared to ask questions on why the extension needs to be installed. We discuss the Magento marketplace and why it is a good place for merchants to look for extensions. Joseph fills us in on what he is working on now and what interesting extensions he worked on in the past. We discuss our Unconference in Orlando Florida in January of 2022 and why Merchants and developers should attend. Joseph Leedy is a Magento developer and certified developer for Wagento Creative, an Adobe Gold Partner. This episode was recorded on July 14th, 2021
