As some of you know and many of you probably don't I have been doing a bit of work looking into the feasibility of integrating Steem into OpenBazaar. After a bit of discussion and research it seems like the integration is definitely possible. To continue forward progress I've decided to write up a short list of tasks necessary for integration. I'll do my best to outline the skills needed and difficulty of each task.
Before getting into it the github for this project is located at https://github.com/DiggnDeeper/Steem-OpenBazaar-Integration, we are on discord at https://discord.gg/zSqQG2, and upon completion of each task I'd recommend posting to Steem and tagging me, @diggndeeper.com and @steemonob. While there are currently no rewards for task completion we can at least upvote the post(it also helps with coordination). Also please make sure all tasks in each part are completed prior to moving onto the next part.
Part 1: Task 1 - Port the wallet-interface from https://github.com/OpenBazaar/wallet-interface/blob/master/wallet.go to https://github.com/DiggnDeeper/Steem-OpenBazaar - This task will require an empty implementation of the OpenBazaar wallet to be created in our Steem repository allowing for part 2 to begin. This is an extremely easy task and only requires only basic GO knowledge.
Part 2: Task 1 - Create the walletMustManager interface - This interface is responsible for basic wallet functionality and will require a good knowledge of the Steem API and GO but shouldn't be too hard to complete as all functions required are fairly standard to Steem.
Task 2 - Create the walletMustKeysmither and WalletMustManuallyAssociateTransactionToOrder interface - This is going to be the most difficult task as it deals with creating a way to escrow Steem that works with OpenBazaar's requirements. This will require a very in depth knowledge of GO, Steem, and Crypto coding in general. Whoever takes on this one will likely want to break this task down into smaller pieces and assign them out to help reduce workload. Of all tasks this will likely require the most work.
Task 3 - Create the walletCanBumpFee interface - I don't believe we will need to worry about this interface as simply returning an error should be fine. Assuming this holds true this task should require only basic GO knowledge.
Part 3: Task 1 - Implement the walletMustBanker interface - This class will be used to find transaction fee costs and should be completed after the walletMustKeysmither. It shouldn't be too difficult to complete depending on the walletMustKeysmither implementation and will likely only require a decent knowledge of GO.
Part 4: At this point we will need to reevaluate the project to determine if anything else is required. If nothing else is then we begin bug testing and integration into the actual OpenBazaar codebase.