Hi, I'm only a lowly docs and phpweb guy, but here are my two pennies.
On 28 May 2014 08:56, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Joe made a post about the introduction on phpng, what it is, and what it > isn't. > Some people (myself included) didn't liked that post for various reasons > (some says it is opiniated, some doesn't like the tone and the wording, > others feel that it is too early to made official announcement about > phpng). > There were a couple of iteration on improving the text, but it is still not > up to our standards imo: > > http://git.php.net/?p=web/php.git;a=history;f=archive/entries/2014-05-27-1.xml > ; > It is already on hackernews and reddit, so while some people suggested, I > think it would be a bad move to just remove it. > And it is being picked up by international news websites. > Would like to know what do you guys think about the best step, I see the > following possible options: > > - keep it as is > Nope. But remember, any change will be being tracked and could in and of itself become something to talk about if we start "fixing" our homepage news articles after-the-fact. That said, I think change would be good. > - remove it > It's far too late for that. The internet already knows it exists. > - rewrite it to be more formal and factual(only talk about what it is > atm. not what it could be in the future). > More formal, more factual, would be good. I also feel it's missing a huge chunk of context. The average php.net homepage reader, and more importantly the readers of the places picking this up as news, would benefit from a wider perspective of the events leading up to this publication. > - create a post explaining that this post is controversional among the > core-devs, so it is reflects more of the authors opinion than the > projects > official view on the topic. > This could be part of an amendment (or just the git commit message). > > I'm mostly interested on the opinion of the core devs, but others also > welcome to reply. > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu >
