I like and support the idea... To be honest, my skill is not really good enough compared to some of you but I want to be involved in this project. I have 2 application built using CakePHP, and I think CakePHP is such a great framework to learn.
Being in this team, will improved my programming skill generally and CakePHP in particular. I want make -even small- contribution in this project. So, if this project is ready to roll..let me know :) On 3/29/07, digital spaghetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > Forgive me for being rather forward with my email here, I'll try to > put my case over as level headed and as thoughtfully as possible, and > please feel free to give back any constructive critisism. Also, > forgive any spelling and grammar - I'm typing this on the way home on > my blackberry, it's the only time I get to write an email this long. > > Through being on the IRC channel, and on here - many a time, someone > new has come along and they are looking for a ready-to-roll > application that they can plonk onto their server and have running. > At the moment, there are a few small apps out there currently being > written by small teams (and even just one coder) such as cheesecake, > bakesale to name a couple, and there are plenty of dead projects in > the trove. > > I want cake to succeed, it's a great framework - but I have to admit, > it took me three tries of coming back to it over the course of a few > month to get the hang of it. I could see it's power, but it took me a > while to get the hand of it. And I'm not the only one. > > What I believe CakePHP needs is a killer app, a CMS that can rival the > others out there, and that gives people the chance to actually see > cakephp in action. Think of it as a pre-packed Cake you get in the > supermarket. RoR has one, Radient CMS - why can't we? I think by NOT > having one, that scares a lot of people off. > > So my proposal is this - along with the primary cake team who are > developing the framework - we create a secondry team to work on an > application that will be this killer app. > > With the creation of this team, we can set about making something that > while it might not suit everyone's needs, it's something that most > people can start off with and build upon (which is something I think > is imporant to note now, think Drupal!). It would have standard > "modules" such as a user system (registration, authorisation, access > levels, etc), a post & comments system, pages (from the db), a menu > system, file upload - and many more. I'm thinking around a level akin > to a default install of Wordpress. > > As well as creating a base level of these modules for people to work > from, I think it would a) drive more people to download and learn > CakePHP as they can see it in action and also so they can expand upon > this base app and b) drive cakephp itself by defining requirments of > the base application, and also provide more components, plugins and > documentaion that can be included into CakePHP itself. And of course > it would help in bug fixing by providing code back to the main > project. > > Now, please don't me wrong - I think everyone should download the > framework and experiment with their own apps, and this "killer app" is > not going to suit all cases, but I think if some of the more senior > members of the community who already have apps out there were to come > together on this and pool their talents, something great could happen. > > If not, then I suppose it's the communitys loss. Personally, I'm > happy to work on my own app, and although progress is admitidly slow, > I certainly wouldn't loose any sleep over it. > > One last thing I would like to say is: convergance, not divergance - I > think that needs to be the motto here > > So folks, now is your time to pipe up with your opinion. If anyone is > interested, then discuss it here and we can start moving forward on > it. If not, then that's fine too. > > Tane > > > > -- ======================== Y!M id: riky.kurniawan Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/rikyknwn Personal blog: http://riky.kurniawan.us ======================== --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
