The end of CakePHP?
Friday, October 23, 2009 23:09Today, Nate Abele, lead developer of CakePHP, announced in a cryptic tweet that he leaves the project. This comes shortly after Gwoo, the project manager, left the project, too. It seems like they started to work on a fork of Cake3 called “Lithium”. On Twitter people are a bit puzzled about those events, some even think it is the end of CakePHP…
I don’t know whether this will be the case, it is too early to say. But I doubt it. The project is still backed by the Cake Development Company, which employs some of the core contributors (Larry Masters aka PhpNut, Mark Story). That’s some guarantee that the show will go on. And of course there is a large community.
On the other hand I don’t know how many of the other contributors will remain. And the lack of (official) communication is also not that good for the confidence into the project. What happened? What will be the next steps? Who will take over those vacant roles? See also Matt Curry’s post on this matter.
Anyway, probably the best thing to do now is to drink tea and to wait until the dust settles…
Update (2009-10-23): an official statement has been published in the meantime.
