Our view on the development of MODX Revolution in the CIS

MODX Revolution is a powerful Content Management Framework with broad basic functionality. The attitude is ambiguous: it seems not a CMS, but not yet a frame.

All over the world have been using them to create sites of different complexity and for me this is the best CMS. I don't want this post to discuss the pros and cons of MODX, its architecture and other details.
The important thing is: this is a known system, and it's in the top five rankings OpenSource CMS. And if you believe CMS Magazine and Runet Rating, or even third.

MODX, like most Open Source systems developed in a decentralized manner. Of course, there's the command center, the kernel programmers and all that, but the main thing in any CMS is expanding and their users write. They do this for several reasons:
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to Create a solution for yourself to use it on future projects.
Receive feedback and improve the solution.

Amuse your self-esteem, test skills. the

Sell your code, earn money.

Now, in MODX there is no opportunity to sell their add-ons through the official website or repository. They are all free and that, on the one hand, good, but with another — there is no normal support, documentation, and quality supplements is no guarantee.

The result is a powerful, popular, no one writes to the add-on professionally, does not guarantee their support / updates and is not obliged to help the users when working with them.
In my opinion, that is a bad situation. On a long enough timeline all serious experts will simply cease to share their extensions, or will work to wear, keeping them free for hundreds of users. Well, or start as what to sell, via personal websites, blogs, etc. — then we'll get complete confusion and vacillation (which is happening now).

In my opinion, of the authors of MODX just have to provide the platform for earnings programmers, but they still did not.

Had to do it ourselves. We built the repository store for Revolution, in which any developer can put their addition and even sell. It is important that the world's first such service for MODX, he is a Russian and works entirely on the native system.

Repository

In MODX Revolution all the extras come in the form of transport packets, which are usually downloaded from the repository. Of course, provided and work with different sources and authentication keys. Moreover, this is done with the very first version, just for our case.

Standard source code repository, given that it works on RoR, they would we do not give because we decided that we will all do it using MODX as a proof of its flexibility and toughness. Anyway, I'm only in it work.

The result is a component of the Extras, which allows you to turn any website into a repository. It is not yet in the public domain (and not sure I will), but package management looks like this:

As far as I can tell, our repository supports all chips official: download version, settings, the download counter. There are also innovation — only access keys for more accurate statistics and protection of the purchased add-ons.br>
Many will ask, why do we need it, if you can free all to put on modx.com?
There are 2 very important reasons:
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All in Russian: the description and reviews and problem solving. No need to write in broken English.
work Fine for the update notification in the admin package. In the official repo, they slow down for a couple of weeks.