A lot of software companies use an "agile" / SCRUM system to manage the development process. In short, this means developers and clients have regular short meetings to discuss what's going on, what the client wants, what needs doing next, who's having problems etc. Jobs are split into small bite size chunks that can be realistically completed in a particular sub-timeframe. This is the most efficient way of running a client/team based development. In this case, Cakewalk and its customers are the client. The client puts forward lots of feature requests and bug reports constantly. Through a series of ongoing SCRUM meetings, the development team will work out the order of priority and efficiency for the next stage of development. To us mear mortals, it will seem like they are just picking low hanging fruit or doing things completely randomly, however, what they are doing is keeping a maintainable and efficient flow of development going and it's also probably how they are able to give us these rolling updates - it's all thanks to a modern, agile development process. I'm personally very grateful for that - even though there are bugs I want fixed now and features I want implemented now, Sonar continues getting better and better every month.

I can't add tags nor up vote in the bakery. I've mentioned it a few times here and there. Anyone else with the same issues?

To perform any function other than posting requires the appropriate signal level. For info see http://bakery.cakewalk.com/How-It-Works. It does appear that many who post on this forum do not post in the Bakery. I have not seen the Bakery change based on posts here but I have seen changes based on posts in the Bakery discussion section.

scook
To perform any function other than posting requires the appropriate signal level. For info see http://bakery.cakewalk.com/How-It-Works. It does appear that many who post on this forum do not post in the Bakery. I have not seen the Bakery change based on posts here but I have seen changes based on posts in the Bakery discussion section.

Thanks scook but I've read through the How it Works before, and it seems to me like this is in reference to having my own ideas upvoted.

Unless I am missing something, I don't see why I cannot upvote other people's ideas. Nor be able to tag my own ideas. Do I need "signal strength" to do those two activities? That would be silly...

Seems the Bakery is an idea that never flew. I don't think any of the regulars to this forum have paid it much attention. I did try myself but found the format sucked. I much prefer what we already have here. My guess is the Bakery will die because of lack of buns. 

Yes... I hope they abandon this idea.

I've tried to use it a couple of times and found it difficult at best.

I believe it turns off most people attempting to use it. If this is the goal, it's working...

THe last time I visited the bakery I put in a suggestion to kill the bakery. Vote now, vote often. 

Does it include an alternative? If not, you'd be killing the entire FR process,, in which case I'd have to submit a suggestion to kill your suggestion.

As a matter of fact my suggestion included reinstating the old feature request system. The bakery could be a one page summary of where the feature requests stand. If you look at the requests listed there, I think you will be hard pressed to find a correlation between what's listed and what gets implemented.

I keep forgetting that the Bakery exist, until I see a thread mentioning it..
I never "got the hang" of using it. Don't like the format.
All the best.