Re: PHP.net alpha layout

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: > Should i prepare a new 'check out our new beta website' banner to be > placed on the live site? > That looks cool :-) I'm +1 Check out what the doc and web site team says about it as well. Julien.Pauli > > > 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 >> > >