Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 Release Announcement Page

2021-11-19 Thread Sara Golemon
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 5:38 AM Rowan Tommins wrote: > Perhaps there should be a section at the end of the 8.1 page saying > something like "If you're still on PHP 7.x, upgrading gets you all this > as well!" with the headlines from the 8.0 page, and a link through. > > ^^ This. Maybe even a

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 Release Announcement Page

2021-11-19 Thread Rowan Tommins
On 19/11/2021 09:38, Giovanni Giacobbi wrote: Why don't you guys keep the same page for the whole 8.x series? You just need to drop the ".0" and append at the end (maybe stating what's new from 8.1 specifically). The rationale is that people will be migrating from 7.x for a long time (hell, I'm

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 Release Announcement Page

2021-11-19 Thread Giovanni Giacobbi
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 10:13, Pierre wrote: > Le 19/11/2021 à 10:10, Kamil Tekiela a écrit : > > I would suggest option number 5. Leave it as it is. Many people are still > > not aware that PHP 8 has been released. > > If that's not possible, then we should keep the page (opt 3), otherwise > we

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 Release Announcement Page

2021-11-19 Thread Pierre
Le 19/11/2021 à 10:10, Kamil Tekiela a écrit : I would suggest option number 5. Leave it as it is. Many people are still not aware that PHP 8 has been released. If that's not possible, then we should keep the page (opt 3), otherwise we will be breaking links to it, e.g. on Stack Overflow. Adding

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 Release Announcement Page

2021-11-19 Thread Kamil Tekiela
I would suggest option number 5. Leave it as it is. Many people are still not aware that PHP 8 has been released. If that's not possible, then we should keep the page (opt 3), otherwise we will be breaking links to it, e.g. on Stack Overflow. Adding PHP 8.1 alongside would be great, but we already

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 Release Announcement Page

2021-11-19 Thread Sara Golemon
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 2:35 AM Nikita Popov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 4:16 AM Sara Golemon wrote: > >> In seven days, https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php is going to be >> obsolete. >> >> Well, that's a harsh term, but it certainly won't reflect the current >> state >> on the

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 Release Announcement Page

2021-11-19 Thread Nikita Popov
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 4:16 AM Sara Golemon wrote: > In seven days, https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php is going to be > obsolete. > > Well, that's a harsh term, but it certainly won't reflect the current state > on the ground, and we need to decide (should have decided, weeks ago) what >

[PHP-DEV] PHP 8 Release Announcement Page

2021-11-18 Thread Sara Golemon
In seven days, https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php is going to be obsolete. Well, that's a harsh term, but it certainly won't reflect the current state on the ground, and we need to decide (should have decided, weeks ago) what we're going to do with it. 1/ Make a new announcement page for

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-20 Thread Gabriel Caruso
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:54, Roman Pronskiy wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:51 AM Gabriel Caruso > wrote: > > > > Roman, > > > > One question that I've received from a couple of communities about this > proposal: can we have translations of this page? Portuguese, French, > Russian, etc. > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-19 Thread Roman Pronskiy
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:51 AM Gabriel Caruso wrote: > > Roman, > > One question that I've received from a couple of communities about this > proposal: can we have translations of this page? Portuguese, French, Russian, > etc. > >From a technical perspective, I assume it should be possible to

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-19 Thread Roman Pronskiy
Hi folks, Thank you all for the feedback. Here is a quick recap of where the matter stands. 1. It seems there’s a consensus that it would be great if the PHP 8 release had a nice sharable release announcement page. But we need to keep neutrality. We’ll update the concept to remove potentially

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-19 Thread Benjamin Morel
I can handle the French one if you need someone. Just send me the texts! — Benjamin On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:59, Sergey Panteleev wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm also ready to help with Russian translation > > wbr, > Sergey Panteleev > On 19 Oct 2020, 16:54 +0300, Roman Pronskiy , > wrote: > > > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-19 Thread Sergey Panteleev
Hi there! I'm also ready to help with Russian translation wbr, Sergey Panteleev On 19 Oct 2020, 16:54 +0300, Roman Pronskiy , wrote: > > From a technical perspective, I assume it should be possible to reuse > php.net/manual/ mechanism for translations. > > As for the texts, the only way we can

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-15 Thread Sara Golemon
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 9:25 AM Benjamin Eberlei wrote: > > 1. October: RMs and/or php-web maintainers should give their go on the idea > (someone else?), so that more detailed creative time investment is not > going to waste. FTR they came to Gabriel and I *first*. Sounded like a neat idea to

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-15 Thread Gabriel Caruso
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 09:57, Roman Pronskiy wrote: > Hello Internals, > > The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be > done to promote it more extensively. > > Usually for releases, there’s a short

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-15 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On Oct 15, 2020, at 11:32, Larry Garfield wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Ben Ramsey wrote: > >> If there’s interest in turning this into a community project outside >> the official PHP project, I’d be interested in helping coordinate the >> efforts, in addition to the use of

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-15 Thread Larry Garfield
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Ben Ramsey wrote: > If there’s interest in turning this into a community project outside > the official PHP project, I’d be interested in helping coordinate the > efforts, in addition to the use of the domain gophp8.dev and hosting. > > This way, the PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-15 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On Oct 15, 2020, at 10:32, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > > Hi > > Den man. 12. okt. 2020 kl. 10.57 skrev Roman Pronskiy > : >> https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg > > The concept looks great, however in the current state, it cannot go in > like that which mainly comes down to neutrality. > > -

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-15 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi Den man. 12. okt. 2020 kl. 10.57 skrev Roman Pronskiy : > https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg The concept looks great, however in the current state, it cannot go in like that which mainly comes down to neutrality. - This means we cannot display projects such as Symfony, Laravel and WordPress at

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-15 Thread Benjamin Eberlei
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:56 AM tyson andre wrote: > Hi internals, > > > As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief > homepage > > intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g. > > typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-14 Thread Matthew Brown
> > > or https://psalm.dev/ (open source) are projects in that area > > (Matthew Brown is one of the authors of Psalm) > > > I don't like the idea of executing that on www.php.net for a few reasons, > but someone else mentioned the possibility of donated cpu time from > somewhere that's worth a

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-14 Thread Sara Golemon
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 6:18 AM Dik Takken wrote: > > However, then we should also make sure that the example > code actually works, and on which PHP versions. As soon as examples can > be run right from the documentation pages, the examples will be run far > more frequently than they are now,

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-14 Thread Roman Pronskiy
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:10 PM Eliot Lear wrote: > > What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that > will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release > highlights. It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a > big PHP 8.0 logo or some

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-14 Thread Brent Roose
Hi internals Regarding the matter of a sandbox, one of my colleagues open sourced a Laravel sandbox that runs straight in the browser and uses docker containers, with a little work you can extract away the Laravel part and have it run plain PHP. Here's the source:

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-14 Thread Dik Takken
On 14-10-2020 03:41, Larry Garfield wrote: > This sounds like a fantastic idea. The inline-run capability of Go and > Rust's documentation is a huge win. Writing good sample code for the > documentation would be an interesting challenge, but it's the sort of thing > that can be done over

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-14 Thread Peter Bowyer
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 00:56, tyson andre wrote: > There's two main options available for testing out php in a browser right > now: > > - A general sandboxed php implementation hosted by the owners of php.net > (requires that it be secured and may lead to additional hosting costs), >

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-13 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, at 6:56 PM, tyson andre wrote: > Hi internals, > > > As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief homepage > > intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g. > > typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-13 Thread tyson andre
Hi internals, > As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief homepage > intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g. > typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be > slightly tweaked to make everything seem newer, while still

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-13 Thread Roman Pronskiy
Agree, this should be for every release. So with this concept, we can start from PHP 8.0, see how it works, and then reuse the template for subsequent releases. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:54 PM Rowan Tommins wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 08:57, Roman Pronskiy > wrote: > > > The PHP 8

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-13 Thread Máté Kocsis
Hi Roman, I 100% agree with what Benjamin has just written. Marketing PHP as a modern, thriving programming language which (mostly) left its dark past behind is very much needed. That said, I'm very grateful for this idea, so thank you! I like the design as well: it's informative, looks clean,

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-13 Thread Benjamin Eberlei
Hi Roman, On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM Roman Pronskiy wrote: > Hello Internals, > > The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be > done to promote it more extensively. > > Usually for releases,

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Matthew Brown
W/r/t the goals: – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers > – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to the > general tech audience The page's design does a *great* job of promoting PHP 8 to existing PHP developers, but a general tech audience skeptical of

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Gabriel Caruso
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 15:25, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > > What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that > > will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release > > highlights. It doesn't need to be

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On Oct 12, 2020, at 08:24, Larry Garfield wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: >> What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that >> will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release >> highlights. It doesn't need to be

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Larry Garfield
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that > will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release > highlights.  It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a > big PHP 8.0 logo or some

[PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Roman Pronskiy
Hello Internals, The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. Usually for releases, there’s a short text announcement on php.net. This may be okay for minor releases and

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Eliot Lear
What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release highlights.  It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a big PHP 8.0 logo or some such as the image as part of the preview would be quite

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Arvids Godjuks
Can confirm, Gmail ate the email into spam folder. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 10:16 Lynn wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM Roman Pronskiy < > roman.prons...@jetbrains.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Internals, > > > > Hi, this message ended up in my spam directory with the message, could be > that

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread AllenJB
On 12/10/2020 08:56, Roman Pronskiy wrote: Hello Internals, The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. Usually for releases, there’s a short text announcement on

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Rowan Tommins
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 08:57, Roman Pronskiy wrote: > The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. > I think that's going a bit far. I don't want to detract from the great features in 8.0, but there were great features in other releases

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/10/2020 08:56, Roman Pronskiy wrote: The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. HOPEFULLY that does not mean it's as much of a cock-up as Python 2 to Python 3

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 12.10.2020 um 09:56 schrieb Roman Pronskiy: The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. Agreed! So, the idea is to create a separate release announcement landing

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net

2020-10-12 Thread Lynn
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM Roman Pronskiy wrote: > Hello Internals, > Hi, this message ended up in my spam directory with the message, could be that people missed it. When opening the message, gmail told me: "Gmail could not verify that it actually came from jetbrains.com. Avoid clicking