The Bakery Everything CakePHP

We feel at this time that the change to code.cakephp.org (using thechaw.com software) has not been an entirely beneficial change. The code.cakephp.org code base has a number of issues, and the present core team lacks the interest to improve this code as there are numerous existing solutions that fit our needs. After hours of discussion and considering many different options and avenues, we've decided that the best course of action is to utilise one of the many existing open source supporting project management web applications. We will be using github[1] for source control. In addition we will be using lighthouse[2][3] for issue tracking and temporary documentation in the form of wiki pages.

As before there are separate repositories for CakePHP1.x[4] and CakePHP2.x[5], as well as separate lighthouse projects. We feel these changes will provide the community with the tools and resources they need and have requested. In addition these changes will lighten the load on the core team allowing us to focus on we do best, create the best framework and related tools we can. We hope you - the community - can understand our motivations for wanting to switch and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it will cause you.

Once the transition is complete trac and code.cakephp.org will be deactivated and all activity related to CakePHP will occur on github and lighthouse. We expect this transition to take no more than a couple of days. The repository on github has had some of the history rewritten to fix irregularities and errors that occurred in the past. If you have local changes in your clones you should be able to migrate and maintain those changes by rebasing your changes.

At this time we'd also like to announce the introduction of two new projects, named localized[6] and datasources[7]. Localized is a project designed to contain all the country specific validators for 1.3. At the time of writing we have 13 countries already partially or fully implemented. If your country is not in the repository please fork the project, add your country and send a pull request.

Datasources is a project to contain community powered datasource classes. Initially this repository will contain the datasources that have been deprecated and removed from 1.3. Over time we hope it grows into a useful repository for datasources of all shapes and sizes. By keeping these two projects separate from CakePHP we can provide a more flexible release schedule that does not conform to that of CakePHP itself.

Both datasources and localized have lighthouse projects for issue tracking so please file any issues with these plugins on their respective lighthouses[8][9]. If you are interested in getting involved with either project, please fork the project on github and send any pull requests.


[1] http://github.com/cakephp
[2] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648-cakephp-1x/overview
[3] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42649-cakephp-2x/overview
[4] http://github.com/cakephp/cakephp1x
[5] http://github.com/cakephp/cakephp2x
[6] http://github.com/cakephp/localized
[7] http://github.com/cakephp/datasources
[8] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42658-localized/
[9] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42657-datasources