This thread is to positive feedback, ideas and encouragement to the Bakery developers which they can consider if they plan any future improvements. When I say 'positive', I simply mean: if you don't have anything constructive to say, then please don't say it :-)
My starting point is that I already love the Bakery and believe that with a few tweaks it could become an amazingly useful and time-saving tool for those of us who are trying to learn more (than the Book says) about Cake. It would be wonderful if every article were the highest quality and adhered to all Cake Best Practices. However, my opinion is that this issue is not as important as easily finding all the best articles WITH some basic indication of quality. The alternative to the Bakery is that everyone publishes wherever and no one knows whether an article is rubbish until after we have individually read it. And even worse, people like me may not know it's rubbish even then! In a nutshell, my own suggestions are: More moderators and a Voting system for logged in readers (Digg style?). Here are the main issues that I think I have identified so far, with some possible solutions/comments. 1. Issue: Many contributors don't like to wait long periods before publication. Solution: More moderators, less initial scrutiny. Previously approved contributors may publish immediately. 2. Issue: Articles sometimes do not adhere to 'good practice'. Solutions: (a) A guide of "How to post to the Bakery" would be helpful to stress the importance of this (thanks to Rafael Bandeira for this idea). (b) Moderators could give a 'stamp of approval' logo to articles exhibiting 'good practice'. Articles which fall short could mention 'HACK' in places where they exhibit unapproved practice. (c) Let readers vote on the articles. The worst articles move down into an 'Unapproved Article Area', still accessible, but awaiting remedial treatment by author or removal by moderator. Authors are alerted when their work goes into this area. 3. Issue: Articles become out of date. Solution: Voting system or moderation soon resolves this. Deprecated articles soon move into 'Unapproved Article Area' and Author alerted. 4. Issue: Some articles have faults. Solution: Readers leave insightful comments and authors may constantly update and improve their articles. Moderators can step in when alerted to severe faults, otherwise comments and votes will highlight the problems. 5. Issue: Some excellent bloggers will not contribute to the Bakery. Solution: Allow those approved bloggers to leave article 'teasers' which links to their site. Allow readers to vote on the article teasers to indicate which blog articles are considered good enough to spend our time reading. Please leave other ideas here so that Bakery developers can consider a good range of ideas and possible enhancements. Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
