Re: PHP.net alpha layout

2013/6/21 Mike Griffiths <mgriffiths@gmail.com>: > > On 21 June 2013 16:20, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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? > > > That gets my vote. It feels like prototype. has been 'coming soon' forever. Shoot then! I also think that it's a perfect timing to introduce such a banner as many users might visit the website to look at PHP 5.5.0 info (adding Julien to CC for this reason). >> 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 >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Mike Griffiths > > mgriffiths@gmail.com