Ladies, gentlemen, droids, I've spent part of my afternoon working through the beta site and trying to deal with the last few issues that we have left before we can make a decision on when to make it live. There are undoubtedly still styling issues that should be dealt with, but at this point, I feel as though we can fix those post-launch — the site is definitely usable, and I think it's a definite improvement on our current layout.
What we do have left is either splitting out the "get involved" content to roughly match the links in the mega dropdown or consolidating those links. I've started breaking the content out on a branch called get-involved — for the most part so far, it's been just splitting and editing what was already on the (overlong) get-involved page, but we'd probably still need to write content for the process of creating a pull request and contributing to the documentation, even assuming what I've done so far is OK. So, here are the remaining issues I'd like people to weigh in on: 1. Should we keep the mega dropdown? I know there are some varying opinions on this — I personally like it, but it definitely needs to be constrained to be relatively short for each of the categories. I've had a stab at (significantly) reducing the size of the documentation menu based on the stats on us3 and my own gut feelings on what's actually commonly used. Hopefully that's helped! 2. If yes, should we split up the get involved content per the branch? Basically, what I've done is to separate out bjori's contribution article from php|architect and the test suite section onto separate pages, which turns /get-involved.php proper into more of a landing page. Is this worth pursuing (and having someone — most likely me — write more content for pull requests and the like)? 3. When should we launch the site? As far as I'm aware, there aren't any functionality gaps relative to the stable site now. The design seems locked down, and this has been dragging on for way too long. I'd like to suggest an aggressive timeframe: I've got a bit of spare time in the next few days if we can come to a consensus on the previous questions, and I don't see why we couldn't flip the switch to be the new site by default and the /my.php option to be to return to the old site on January 1. New year, new start, and all that. Thoughts? Adam -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
