I thought a viewpoint of a MVC "noobie" might be appropriate here. I pretty much been learning MVC and design patterns within the last year or so. Most of my understanding of MVC has resulted from playing with Zend Framework since 0.2. The biggest issue I had was understanding how to do layouts with Zend_View, I have solved it in my own, unelegant, noobie way. But it never felt quite right to me. Now I see that there are proposals for two Layout classes that would have solved this very problem. I feel that these classes have been missing from the Framework longer than they should.
1.0GA is a very important release, most people will base their opinion on the quality of Zend Framework during this release. In some ways I feel that Zend Framework's reputation is at stake here. 1.1 or so might come a little to late to win back favor. So I'm begging for those against adding a Zend_Layout in 1.0 to reconsider. Feature freezes are set in ideals, not in stone. Your lovable noob, Chad
