Re: PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net
| From: | Gabriel Caruso | Date: | Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:50:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net | ||
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 09:57, Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com>
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 php.net.
> 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:
>
> – 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
>
> Alexander Makarov, myself, and Svetlana Belozerova, a designer from
> JetBrains, have created the following concept:
> https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg
>
> We’d like to hear from you about how you like the idea. If you support
> it, we’ll finish the design and work on a PR against
> github.com/php/web-php with the implementation.
>
> Looking forward to hearing what you think.
>
> Roman Pronskiy,
> PMM at JetBrains
>
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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.
Best,
-- Gabriel Caruso