It’s all go in Cake land! This past week has seen some big changes in management [style] at the open source project, which has seen PHPNut temporarily step down as the lead developer of the project. And as a result, we’ve witnessed an increase on the amount of developers actually contributing to the core, including little ol’ me! I committed one or two test cases over the weekend, and have seen two of my contributed patches become applied to the 1.2 branch.
This all means that we can expect to see a release candidate, or possibly even a final release of CakePHP 1.2 within the next month or two. Everyone now seems to be concentrating on fixing bugs, rather than adding more enhancements to a release that is already heaving with new features. And that’s good news.
Of course, I could write a whole post or two on the reasons for these developments, but needless to say, if you have been active in the IRC channel over the last week, you will know what has been happening. I think we can expect some official post from Gwoo about what exactly has changed, which is better than me babbling on about it and possibly saying the wrong thing. You may have to wait a day or two, though, as apparently Gwoo is in Hawaii!
Anyway, I am off to see what other bugs I can squash. I would love to see a final release in May. May 2008 that is!
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
[...] CakePHP goes on the offensive [...]
April 29th, 2008 at 3:07 am
I had thrown out an offer to help with development and I see this post today which explains why I hadn’t heard from anyone. I run a web development company and intend to use CakePHP for new development and would like to offer a hand where it can be used. Please let me know what you need and congrats! I look forward to seeing a release of 1.2.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Hi John,
The best thing to do if you want to help, is to hop into the IRC room and speak to Nate and Gwoo about wanting to help. You should also take a look at the bug list and see what you could help with and submit any patches and tests to the ticket.