I guess the framework consumed the free time of whoever was willing to work on whatever approved components and there it evolved - including the Zend_Service_* components. For instance, critical components such as Zend_Locale, Zend_Session were late entries until they found Thomas/Ralph to develop them.
On Dec 28, 2007 4:08 PM, Federico Cargnelutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As I'm following more closely the development and progress of the ZF, I > would like to give the dev-team some feedback and of course, ask some > questions. > > First the feedback: > > I think ZF is relative new and the progress so far has been amazing. ZendF > has a community with very talented developers. The first impression I got > when joining the community was that web services are one of the many > priorities. I think that web services are great, they are the future right? > I'm sure that today every website uses one or more web services. But, who is > using the web services components included in the ZF? I know that in terms > of image, to associate the ZF with web services is a good thing, but, the > discussions I'm having with Technical Managers and other Developers are > always about the components that ZF doesn't have. For example, Zend_Ftp, > Zend_Form, Zend_File_Uploader, Zend_File_Utility, Zend_Debug, Zend_Build, > Zend_Image, Zend_Tree, Zend_Nav and others that honestly I can't remember > now. > > Working as a contractor is a funny thing, you meet a lot of developers and > you have managers everywhere. So, in my case, when I'm in the planning stage > of a project, and discussing about different technologies, architectures and > frameworks, if the project requires the use of PHP, I recommend ZF, but, if > the project faces a tight deadline (almost always), we end up using Symfony. > I have used Phython/Django and Ruby/RoR before, but the company where I'm > contracting now, develops mainly using PHP and .NET. > > So basically, Technical Managers know they don't have 2 months to develop > the missing components, and they are asking me questions such as, how are we > going to upload and resize images? How are we going to create a navigation > system? How are we going to implement a web service for authentication using > OpenID? How does the framework cope with TDD? Doe it have unit testing? A > debugger? So far, they never asked me anything about any of the > Zend_Service_* components, except in one project that we needed one for > PayPal. > > Ok, that was my feedback based on my experience. And now the questions :) > > - What are the main objectives and golas for 2008 in regards to the ZF? > - What are the priorities and what is going to be considered top priority > in the next 6 months? > > Also, there's some confusion out there about the purpose of the ZF, some > people see it as a library of components that doesn't offer a solid system > architecture for web development, others, like myself, see it as a solid > framework with a flexible and extensible architecture. But still, there's > some confusion. > > - So, how are you planning to promote the Zend Framework next year? What > are my bosses going to read or hear about it? > - How are you going to approach new developers? > > Sorry for this massive email guys! I would like to know your opinions on > this and invite everyone to send their feedback. > > Thanks and happy 2008! > > Fed > > > > >
