What's the difference between, solidus and spree ? I can see more development in Spree, is there a roadmap for Solidus?

Solidus is a fork of Spree that was created when Spree was being managed by a different company who ended up abandoning the project. Much of the Spree community rallied around the Solidus fork. Solidus is managed by a core team from various different companies. Spree is managed by a single company, Spark Solutions. One of the main goals of Solidus was to ensure that the upgrade path for stores running the project is painless. Prior to Solidus, the Spree community had become very fragmented because upgrades were too much work. We've been very successful at that. We don't have an up-to-date roadmap as much of the development is community-driven, but currently the project is spending funds to complete our new, modernized admin interface. Also, keep in mind that the Spree "success stories" are somewhat misleading. A number of them are Solidus stores, not Spree stores. The people running the site have a history of putting Solidus stores on there without permission, claiming they are Spree stores, and dragging their heels when stores have asked to be removed. The technical differences between the projects are hard to list. The project diverged ten years ago, and while they share much of the same code, many things have changed as well. Solidus has a new admin, new starter frontend, new promotions system, and a great many extension points that ease customization that aren't present in Spree. I'm not really qualified to say what Spree has that we don't, besides a more restrictive license, though. 😉

@Jared Norman Thanks for answering the question, do you have an image for the new admin dashboard for Solidus your are working on

@sam you can view a part of it using demo.solidus.io

ok thanks

just wondering if we have a roadmap like Spree 5 ( new features in the future etc ) https://github.com/spree/spree/milestone/49

I am biased here, but I wouldn’t give too much trust to that. They change frequently. We wanted to go with spree initially and found that they trashed the entire roadmap in favor of closed source development.

We don't currently have an accurate roadmap, but I agree with Fabian's assessment. Spark have continued to look for ways to monetize the Spree platform, whereas Solidus is run by people who work in organizations that use Solidus (agencies and individual stores.)

It’s also worth to say that solidus is very feature complete if you pull the extensions together.

yeah https://github.com/spree/spree/milestone/49

I share your point on this.