Cake core might benefit from some more developers helping out

Judging from the lower activity in core development these last few months (totally understandable given  family obligations), me thinks the cake leadership might benefit from actively solicitating additional help.

Have a look at this:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV2/Component+Maintainers

It is the Zend framework's component maintainer's list. Each component has a lead developer, as well as several developers/maintainers to assist. There are over 50 developers contributing.

It is a similiar situation with Symfony2. Half of the updates in the last couple of months were distributed by around a dozen people (fabien's contribution was equal to the sum of all of their put together).

Unlike the other frameworks (Symfony, Zend), cake does not have the luxury of a large company financially supporting and evolving the framework development with full time developers. I would think this strengthens the case for actively soliciting and recruiting community developers to build the framework even stronger.

Mark Story is literally super-human, extra-terrestrial, and is doing an incredible job. We all should be more grateful to him then we know.

But one or two people part-time on a large framework like this is not ideal, I don't think.

None of this should be taken as criticism of a great team, and the great work our core developers do. Rather, it is only because they have created the most RAD framework API in the industry,  that cake is the most popular framework and  they have generated this need for more developers to fuel the engine.

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