Re: PHP.net alpha layout

Lets have a graceful plan to move people over, in the event we've broken anything only a limited number of users will be affected by it. Look at the little bar I added on the top of beta (http://prototype.php.net) I'd like to add a similar one on the LIVE php.net website basically saying "look at our new theme". Thoughts? On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net>wrote: > 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. > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >