RE: my.php.net RFC

> > The other point worth considering here is that if we add [PL] as a > > setting, then php.net gets more traffic, as users don't > need to go out > > to a mirror site for easy shortcuts to see manual pages in their > > native langauge. Therefore we need to disable [PL] on php.net, or > > remove php.net from the selectable mirrors list, and always > redirect > > from php.net. The later is a bit too agressive, I think the > former can > > do what it is proposed for... Or else, if the php.net systems team > > does not care about the increased traffic [PL] will cause, we can > > leave it to work on php.net normally... > > Have you considered using the "Accept-Language" header sent by the browser to set the "easy" shortcut? This way a user can go to any php mirror including the main site and will get the correct shortcut. If he is not sending the header than it will show him the default shortcut of that particular mirror. I believe the user goes to the mirror site in his country for faster speeds rather than an "easy" shortcut to the manual. In fact most users would not even know that there would be an easy shortcut to his language in the local mirror. So I think disabling the language bit on the php.net site is quite aggressive. Also, I noticed that the language name on the manual page is in english. Should we consider writing the same in that individual language itself. I think there may be ppl out there who wouldn't know their language name in english. But everyone would know the language name in their language (obviously!) Divyank