What do you have in mind to solve this? Would you like to jump into some tickets and start helping us out? :)
On Apr 6, 12:51 pm, keymaster <[email protected]> wrote: > Judging from the lower activity in core development these last few months > (totally understandable given family obligations), me thinks the cake > leadership might benefit from actively solicitating additional help. > > Have a look at > this:http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV2/Component+Maintainers > > It is the Zend framework's component maintainer's list. Each component has a > lead developer, as well as several developers/maintainers to assist. There > are over 50 developers contributing. > > It is a similiar situation with Symfony2. Half of the updates in the last > couple of months were distributed by around a dozen people (fabien's > contribution was equal to the sum of all of their put together). > > Unlike the other frameworks (Symfony, Zend), cake does not have the luxury > of a large company financially supporting and evolving the framework > development with full time developers. I would think this strengthens the > case for actively soliciting and recruiting community developers to build > the framework even stronger. > > Mark Story is literally super-human, extra-terrestrial, and is doing an > incredible job. We all should be more grateful to him then we know. > > But one or two people part-time on a large framework like this is not ideal, > I don't think. > > None of this should be taken as criticism of a great team, and the great > work our core developers do. Rather, it is only because they have created > the most RAD framework API in the industry, that cake is the most popular > framework and they have generated this need for more developers to fuel the > engine. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
