At the risk of getting embroiled in yet another heated debate, I'm going to respond to this *once*:
While his recent posts have been somewhat informative and helpful, in my opinion they are more than outweighed by the months of posts which were critical, argumentative, and just generally unhelpful. Daniel seems to like to argue for the sake of arguing, which is counterproductive. Rather than pointing out improvements in a constructive way, he chooses to simply tear down, attack, and question in a condescending way. This gets people riled up, and I end up having to waste my time explaining my decisions and why Daniel is wrong. This is time I could be spending fixing bugs or adding features. Also, Daniel has a pathological aversion to taking any kind of responsibility for anything he does or says. is latest post (http:// cakebaker.42dh.com/2008/06/02/new-callback-methods-for-components/) is a perfect example. Rather than taking responsibility for not noticing features which have been in the core for years, he blames us for the fact that they are "well hidden", which is utterly absurd, as they are used in core components and were mentioned specifically in the changelog (https://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/changelog/1.2.x.x). But the most classic example of all is here: http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2007/08/31/what-do-i-wrong-that-the-other-person-fails/. The absurdity of blaming others for your own shortcomings is just dumbfounding. This problem poisons all communication between him and the members of the CakePHP team, it was the cause of the rift between him and the Cake team in the first place, and I don't want someone like that associated with the official resources of this project. As someone who's invested a great deal of personal time and effort into this project, I think I'm well within my rights to make that decision. His behavior is outside the bounds of what I consider a productive member of an Open Source community (I am most certainly not alone in my opinion), and so far I have seen no evidence of his willingness to change. For those of you who disagree with my decision, let me put this to you very plainly: I don't care. This is a personal decision which no one outside the core team has any right to a voice in. I am not preventing anyone from reading Daniel's blog, nor am I trying to. Nor, for that matter, am I disparaging the technical content of it, which by and large is quite good. My decision is based on a person and his attitude, an attitude which, again, I do not feel reflects the Open Source spirit (and again, feel free to disagree with me, because I don't care). If at any point in the future, Daniel chooses have a more productive attitude, I would welcome his input openly, in all matters of this project. But until then, I have no wish to support such a person by consciously allowing him to benefit from my personal efforts and those of my friends and teammates. On Jun 2, 9:02 pm, villas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does the Cake Team choose the list of blogs mentioned on > cakephp.org? > > If the listing is chosen objectively, it should include those blogs > with the highest quality and quantity of posts. Especially those > which are helpful to general Cake users. > > On what basis therefore is CakeBaker's blog excluded? > http://cakebaker.42dh.com > > CakeBaker's posts have consistently been high quality, informative > and interesting. And, more importantly, he is the most prolific > blogger that the Cake community has (as far as I know). > > He may be opinionated and irritate the Core Team. However, as far as > I can see, he is always open to other opinions and corrections. > Indeed the debates in the blog comments are in themselves > enlightening. It is generally postive and honest about Cake even when > shortcomings are noted. And as we all know, top class open source > projects have nothing to fear from those who make positive criticism. > Indeed they are only strengthened by it. > > Good bloggers should not be taken for granted and ignored, they > should be embraced and encouraged. > > I may be a lone voice in the desert, but I would respectfully ask for > the Cake webmaster to reconsider CakeBaker's inclusion in the list, > that is until of course he is overtaken by other, even higher quality > bloggers :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
