Re: PHP.net alpha layout

Should i prepare a new 'check out our new beta website' banner to be placed on the live site? On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net>wrote: > 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 >