Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:112049
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <CADZ9LSXePBHB6A5xEFGvW9MZ7pOpM0Hht10cjSkBXQnQGSP8dQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CADZ9LSXePBHB6A5xEFGvW9MZ7pOpM0Hht10cjSkBXQnQGSP8dQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:31:49 +0200
Message-ID: <CAEPJdumH1EdcZ1QuhSqKGY2p7FK19kitnkjNCsAJqLjJc6HA4Q@mail.gmail.com>
To: Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com>
Cc: PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000510f5705b18ff4be"
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net
From: kontakt@beberlei.de (Benjamin Eberlei)

--000000000000510f5705b18ff4be
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi Roman,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.co=
m>
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=E2=80=99s a short text announcement on php.ne=
t.
> This may be okay for minor releases and for people who are deeply
> involved in PHP as they already know about the new features. But for
> the majority of PHP developers and potential PHP developers, it is not
> enough.
>
> So, the idea is to create a separate release announcement landing page
> to achieve the following goals:
>
> =E2=80=93 Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers
> =E2=80=93 Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release,=
 to
> the general tech audience
>
> Alexander Makarov, myself, and Svetlana Belozerova, a designer from
> JetBrains, have created the following concept:
> https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg
>
> We=E2=80=99d like to hear from you about how you like the idea. If you su=
pport
> it, we=E2=80=99ll finish the design and work on a PR against
> github.com/php/web-php with the implementation.
>
> Looking forward to hearing what you think.
>

i love the idea!

Honestly in my opinion, the actual content itself and what is or what is
not on the page is not so important, this kind of release announcement post
is mostly about the signal effect to the outside world that there is a
force behind PHP that goes beyond "a few people tinkering on a programming
language" (to be hyperbolic). As such I think we should just do it and not
bikeshed over the content, or if this marketing speaks to old or new users
or what does. If the overall message is along the lines is "PHP gets faster
again, PHP gets more awesome features again, PHP is alive and kicking" then
this is a huge win :-)

>
> Roman Pronskiy,
> PMM at JetBrains
>
> --
> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
> To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>

--000000000000510f5705b18ff4be--