I like your optimistic ideas Hannes. I honestly think the new one is almost ready if we decide on the most mission critical bugs to be resolved, and we resolve them, we should be able to just switch.
NB: We can add a suttle bar at the top saying to people, "view this page in the old style", so the link will be relative on each page, with perhaps just "beta=0" appended. Thoughts? On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Hannes Magnusson < hannes.magnus...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Stewart Lord <ste...@ambitious.ca> wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Adam Harvey wrote: > >> 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? > > > > > > Hi Adam, > > > > I did much of the earlier work on the beta site. In my opinion, the beta > is not ready for production. It looks pretty rough. > > > Like I've said before; There are only 2 ways to launch php.net redesign; > - Unfinished; will force people to join the effort to work fast as it > is already live > - Incrementally; (in random order) replace the top bar, then change > doc warning/note/tips blocks, then the doc sidebar, then user notes, > then then then then.. This ofcourse means that every few days color > schemas will crash, but so what? We'll have a healthy activity of > commits streaming in and people making all sorts of outrageous > suggestions and others will be committing horrible css, while others > blindly ignore feedback and just continue doing stuff.. and in a month > or so things have chilled out and we wind up with something cool :D > > We should easily be able to incrementally merge the things that are > considered to be 80%+ finished right now, and continue work on things. > > As long as we keep things fun everyone wants to share their pennies > and contribute. If we have to strict rules or demands, nothing will > happen. > > -Hannes > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
