As many in the community know, since the very beginning CakePHP has used tabs for intendation, given their semantic value over spaces. However, over the past years the PHP community as a whole has, by a significant margin, decided to use 4 spaces for indentation.
Although we in the core team don't all agree with this style, we do mostly agree that confronting these pointless discussions over coding styles, and continuously defending the framework against invalid claims that it's "non-standard" because of our exceptions to PSR-2, is a waste of everyone's time. It's also unnecessary bad press for the framework, which we want to set aside before the final release of 3.0, and allow for more constructive conversations to take place. We already have an A+ rating for our exisiting [coding conventions](http://squizlabs.github.io/PHP_CodeSniffer/analysis/cakephp/cakeph