Re: Let's get rid of The Bakery

I agree that the Bakery is good, but not in its present state.
It's embarrassing that it can't send proper email. Even I, a CakePHP
newbie, can send proper emails using the CakePHP email component, why
can't the Bakery? :)

I suspect that the original Bakery people left the project or got too
much real life to get around to tending it.

I also agree that a faster turn around time is necessary. No, not
necessary: crucial.
Absolutely vital.

About the code reviews:
I've seen code and articles on the Bakery which does not conform to
any standard whatsoever, so that requirement just feels silly.
If people register and contribute, why not let them do that?
Readers and moderators can always request improvements later.

It's a pity. And a shame.

On Apr 4, 1:12 pm, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 7:21 pm, nurvzy <nur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The blank comment email notifications are annoying, until I redirected
> > them to my gmail account.  Gmail pulls them in just find.  just FYI.
> > If I used any other email client, Evolution/Outlook/etc.. they would
> > all be blank.
>
> Mine come to gmail so I hadn't seen that. I see that comment
> notifications are sent with Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="alt-". However, the email does not comply with RFC1521 and
> include one or more parts, just the single HTML version. It could be
> that some clients, if set to not display messages as HTML, simply
> wouldn't show anything. Maybe.
>
> At least the EmailComponent now defaults to 'text' instead of 'html'.
> That was so wrong. 'both' would have been more appropriate than
> 'html'.
>
> > The Bakery has its uses, and I like the idea behind it;  a single
> > place for developers of CakePHP to blog/share code/etc..  I also like
> > that its reviewed by CakePHP developers to adhere to and keep a level
> > of consistency/correctness.  That's a noble and very ambitious goal.
>
> ++ for the Bakery. I've found a lot of interesting code there.
>
> > The biggest issue I see facing the bakery is the lack of moderators.
> > The time it takes a to go through the submittion->feedback->publish
> > process on an article is extremely long.  The last article I submitted
> > took almost 2 months to finally publish.  That, coupled with the fact
> > once the article is approved, and published, if you need to make an
> > edit it has to go through the entire review process again.   What you
> > end up with is a ton of code rot, because once its published its
> > easier to just leave it be and comment on updates.
>
> No wonder there doesn't seem to be much change each time I visit.
>
> > The Bakery needs to have a faster turn-around.  After an article is
> > published, an edit should not revoke its published state, rather put
> > it in the bin to re-review, and if the edit is outrageous *then* take
> > it down after the review. I find most edits are simple code upkeep,
> > spelling/grammar errors, extra explanation, etc...  It'd be nice after
> > having gone through that long review process that if an author wanted
> > to add an extra sentence or two, update a link or any other minor
> > upkeep the article would stay published with a (pending review)
> > status.
>
> > It may be as simple as getting more moderators, I have and do offer my
> > services to help code review/feedback/etc..   IMHO turn-around needs
> > to be better or just don't have code review.
>
> Aside from doing something about the spam, I wish I could actually log
> in. I've created a couple of accounts now but can't use them. The
> comment and new password notifications use one's proper name--NOT the
> username--in the email. I can't remember which username was with which
> email address! I've tried all sorts of combos with no luck.
>
> Another thing: for multi-page articles, the links are not at all
> obvious.

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