Re: PHP.net alpha layout

2013/6/21 Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Daniel P. Brown wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net> wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > The "PHP.net alpha" layout is already there since a long time. >> > What's remaining for having it "beta"? >> > >> > Discussing it with some colleagues, it appears that most of them were >> > not aware of its existence. >> > Shouldn't we put a small but visible button to let people switch to >> > the new layout from any page? It would increase the number of >> > alpha/beta-testers and, possibly, decrease the time to adopt the new >> > layout. >> >> Actually, it's always been beta (even activation of the new layout >> requires adding the ?beta=1 query string). > > I'd say just turn on the beta by default, then people whine and stuff > gets fixed quickly :-) Mhhh, I would not be opposed to that, but I think it is a bit brutal. If we provide an overlay, we could maybe do some stats about the growing adoption of the new layout.