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Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 09:28:24 +0100
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To: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] about the latest frontpage entry
From: petercowburn@gmail.com (Peter Cowburn)

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Hi,

I'm only a lowly docs and phpweb guy, but here are my two pennies.

On 28 May 2014 08:56, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@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 n=
ot
> up to our standards imo:
>
> http://git.php.net/?p=3Dweb/php.git;a=3Dhistory;f=3Darchive/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 Kov=C3=A1cs
> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
>

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