That's generally a point made against Open Source -- except that closed source stuff gets pushed back all the time, and is released very buggy. In my experience, when there's a bug in Open Source, we can either fix it or get it fixed within 48 hours -- closed source, we're lucky if our vendors can supply a solution in 48 DAYS.
Hanzgroove wrote: > I think that this is the downside to Open Source in general. There's > no one there to police any sort of deadline or release schedule. > > For example, back in JANUARY I asked this question: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know when Cake 1.2 will be officially released for a > production? > > I'm going to be starting development on a new project within a few > weeks. One thing that I would like to avoid is having to mess around > with the usual hacks for pagination and validation. It seems that Cake > 1.2 has solved these problems. However, I haven't seen an expected > release date for a stable version of 1.2. > > Anyone have a guesstimate? > > Thanks... > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Nate responded with: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ETA: When it's ready. > > We don't make predictions or estimates on when things will be > released. > However, all the Cake sites are based on 1.2, and the trunk release > is > generally stable. With this dev release, the issue isn't stability, > it's the fact that we haven't finalized the API yet, so as long as > you're comfortable with having to tweak your code between now and the > beta, you should be fine using it. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Here we are 6 months later and at least from my perspective, I'm still > in the same position > with Cake 1.2. So all the new commercial/production sites I've built > have had to use Cake 1.1 including all the ugly > hacks for paging, auth, etc. 6 months later, just to move from 1.1 to > 1.2. Its pretty frustrating. > > Add on the lack of documentation, and it makes me wonder if my > donations to the Cake project > are just allowing these guys to procrastinate more. If you're willing > to accept my donations, you should > be equally as ready to accept my criticism. Come on guys, as a > "customer", 6 months later is a bit much. > Considering there are several guys on the team, I don't understand > what the delay is for 1.2 or at least decent > documentation for it. > > Sorry to sound like a jerk but I'm sure all the end users of the Cake > framework can relate to the same frustration. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
