Newsgroups: php.internals,php.webmaster Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:74605 php.webmaster:19035 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78018 invoked from network); 28 May 2014 19:33:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 May 2014 19:33:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=tyra3l@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=tyra3l@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.192.43 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: tyra3l@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.192.43 mail-qg0-f43.google.com Received: from [209.85.192.43] ([209.85.192.43:59590] helo=mail-qg0-f43.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 5B/0E-02991-CE936835 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 15:33:01 -0400 Received: by mail-qg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id 63so19671460qgz.30 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 12:32:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=/i4IPymmFVUluJvYUZCU+0F27ZRj7s6ffXK7UOqiJy0=; b=csGOehpZ08a1+PcVbSaG6HnLId8+SkKeNEWEOVkYegLHyQYcOLUuxWPZW0G0Yaddcv YV1VQZNbr8UbssLogHRu2kctCZBbjuRkPtHxKt2WQjGCfPYpzYbqVOQMUGm6oBzpdpV3 KizEwZ/7FEPuUIQ4KU1aA0aTkRQxgdO5Lu/D1J4D/lr15bAvdN1DXpnM61bhEHC0ShaC dISc1ft7KeR1YfE0OVAiuHuuz1fYY/7TqW34BCIMmxvNrGHp3hDxkR0eOVl/Mv30Cbh8 GPA5Mr2a/9lth084RkqKth8DF5pfccZQEAU1AfGcgizN52MAfrHjzd41zaBMvBNXKaKd HAUg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.14.79 with SMTP id f15mr2732857qaa.96.1401305577373; Wed, 28 May 2014 12:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.17.77 with HTTP; Wed, 28 May 2014 12:32:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1401303702.2998.111.camel@guybrush> References: <998f4156545f1b2fe88c0f1e64b94015@mail.gmail.com> <5777562771914574713@unknownmsgid> <1401303702.2998.111.camel@guybrush> Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:32:57 +0200 Message-ID: To: =?UTF-8?Q?Johannes_Schl=C3=BCter?= Cc: Zeev Suraski , Levi Morrison , Michael Wallner , Andi Gutmans , PHP Internals , php-webmaster Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bdc80fc29607e04fa7ae150 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Re: [PHP-DEV] about the latest frontpage entry From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs) --047d7bdc80fc29607e04fa7ae150 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Johannes Schl=C3=BCter wrote: > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 18:47 +0200, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > I agree that this doesn't belong to the frontpage, nor do we did ever > have > > stuff like this there. > > But I also think that removing it would do more harm than good at this > > point. > > I also think that having a easier to understand channel and posts like > this > > to communicate the roadmap and development of the project would be a ni= ce > > thing to have (as long as we don't try to use the frontpage for that). > > So I would suggest checking out the updated version from Levi, and > discuss > > if it still has any controversial stuff. > > yes, I agree that we should have simpler to digest channels for users to > follow with little effort. In the past we had Steph Fox for some time > creating nicely written weekly summaries. recently I found Pascal Martin > doing this on a monthly base: > > http://blog.pascal-martin.fr/post/php-mailing-list-internals-february-201= 4-en I love the guy for that, and I'm proud that I have a small influence on convincing him to start doing it in english: https://twitter.com/Tyr43l/status/411187113334292480=C2=A7 > > > Maybe we can also work with the Planet PHP guys to work on some > highlighting of different authors/content ("internals related" / > "framework related" / "app related" / ...) and maybe integrate it in > some way with php.net or alternatively work on people.php.net to allow > developers to post their view. > > However we should keep the focus of the php.net main news stream clear > factual news. Advertise improvements made in 5.6 ("sell what we have") > agree > > Mind that compared to php.net the blogs and other sites have a quite > small reach so damage they cause is quite little. A posting on php.net > (especially when used by some "journalist" on the bi news sites) can > create quite wrong expectations easily (the journalist has limited time > for research and condenses it, the reader just picks up some sentences > with even less context ...) > agree also > > So yes, we have room for improvement, and yes as a trigger for such a > debate this post was helpful, but further discussion should be done > aside from this precise "incident". > > I wasn't trying to avert attention from this issue, but trying to be productive/pragmatic and focus on what to do now/next, instead of playing the blame game. --=20 Ferenc Kov=C3=A1cs @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu --047d7bdc80fc29607e04fa7ae150--