I can't imagine myself using a huge "bundled" set of extra stuff,
unless it was part of a cakephp initiative that was officially, and
reliably, supported into the future with successive cake releases.
Anything less, I would probably regard as too fly-by-nght to base my
systems on.

The extra stuff I would want,  I would in any case need to first
research one by one on the bakery and this forum,  and also read the
code, so I could support it myself going forward.

I sure wouldn't want hundreds of lines of code I didn't know, didn't
need, and which wasn't supported by the cake team, just sitting around
in my systems (or worse, executing).

So, if I need to research everything I include anyways, what is the
"bundle" saving ... copy/paste time ?

Furthermore, if the code will exist in the bundles, and also on the
bakery, that means the same code is in two places. Where will people
write comments with further enhancements/fixes etc?. On the bakery
version, or in your bundle version?

Although initially this initiative may have sounded appealing to some,
I think upon further thought, one might come to the conclusion that it
is not really all that worth the time, noble as the originator's
intentions were.

A more valuable contribution along the same lines might be to identify
all the contributions you would have included in your bundle, but
instead of making a separate bundle (duplicating all the code in a
second place), keep them in their current bakery locations, and test
them with each successive cake release. Discover and offer patch
suggestions for problems people report, and post the patches to the
appropriate bakery pages, until the owners decide to incorporate them
in their code.

This way, with each successive cake release, you would help ensure the
most important bakery contributions people like to use were still
working correctly.

That, I think, might be a more valuable contribution (but it's still
lots of work).

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