On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote:
> > I think that regardless of how we phrase it, it does not belong on > > www.php.net at this time[...] > > > > Deviating from that line requires a strong majority if not consensus, > > which is clearly not there at this point. It should be removed until > > such consensus is reached, if at all. > > That is all just your opinion. Maybe others share it; I don't know. > Where does it say we need to reach a consensus on what we put on our > homepage? > changing the status quo always requires consensus imo. if we want to start using our frontpage for future "blog" entries, then I agree that we would need consensus/support from the other contributors first. if nothing else release announcements will be less visible on the frontpage, and that can be an undesired side-effect for the qa releases, which already have too little exposure/feedback. > > I mean no disrespect here, but if we need to vote on this then we have > much bigger issues than this news entry. > I would be curious why do you think that. I mean if I understand you correctly, you are saying that it is a bad thing if somebody (or a small group of people) can't change our current "policy" on the frontpage posts. Personally I think that it would be counter-productive to remove this entry now, I think the best course of action would be improving the entry to remove the controversial parts (what you already mentioned doing it yourself), and as nobody argued against the intention of the post, I think it would be nice to start up an official blog where we can put up these kind of posts in the future. I would prefer either using some 3rd party blogging platform with our own domain name (like wordpress.com, I'm fairly sure we could get a free account there), or using a static blogging engine like octopress which makes the maintenance cost near-zero. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
