NOTE: I am just giving my opinion (biased of course) and hopefully some constructive criticism. This is because I believe that a project should have those who criticize it rather than a complete loyal fan base because criticism does bring about improvement does it not?
First of all, ZF has made a lot of progress since last year and I am very happy about the way it turned out. It does seem like there was a real rush to push 1.0 out the door considering RC2, RC3 and 1.0 were all released in a one month period (RC3 to 1.0 was a little over a week if I remember). While I do realize that fact that this is a project geared towards enterprise customers as they do pay the bills :thinking:, I do hope that the target now is to fix up some nasty areas and concentrate a little bit more on developer friendliness. Of course, there should still be a balance between what you call "rapid development features" vs "code design". While I am very pro "code design" rather than using "rapid development tactics" such as placing a commonly functions everywhere, I do think that a many people were hoping for a rails-type feel and a little bit doesn't hurt. Now that I got that out of the way. There are some things that I feel that ZF is lacking, hopefully everyone realizes it already. Zend_Cache at the moment doesn't feel very "up to par" as I saw a few areas that could be improved such as the removal of the constructor array params checking which is inconsistent with other designs such as in Zend_Db. Another wierd thing question I've got to ask is "Why are the backends and frontends hardcoded?". On top of that, being able to provide default configuration for backends/frontends would be nice. Well that is one component, other components I feel that were lacking love in were Zend_Translate, Zend_Date and Zend_Mail could use a getDefaultTransport function to be able to use the default transport when sending multiple mails, but that could be debatable. One thing that I thought was wierd was this http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-2314 (Thought I'd throw this in hoping Matthew would explain ;) ). Obviously I have too much to rant about, so I'll end it about here and keep you guys from getting bored of reading. Wishlist: Abstraction of the Bootstrap process I do have an attempt at this, although it sounds like you are heading towards code generation... (http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/zftalk/SpotSec_Application) Zend_Log_Writer_Syslog Fix up Zend_Cache quality Fix wierdness in a few areas of Zend_Db Ralph, Fix the Zend_Auth_Adapter_DbTable and the object FETCH_MODE bug Don't make me nag you on #zftalk ;) Model Loading? Zend_Acl and Zend_Auth pattern This seems to be confusing as to a "good" design for many people Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl (returns baseurl) Ok this is kinda on the lazy side, but it does reduce a lot of typing ;) That being said, I am looking forward to the future and have followed the progress of Zend_Layout and Zend_Form since the beginning; however, I do hope that some of your attention is diverted to the cracks in ZF before your next release. End of ridiculous rant, SpotSec -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/One-person%27s-opinion...-tp14476650s16154p14476650.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
