Re: about the latest frontpage entry

On May 28, 2014, at 12:56 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Joe made a post about the introduction on phpng, what it is, and what it > isn't. > Some people (myself included) didn't liked that post for various reasons > (some says it is opiniated, some doesn't like the tone and the wording, > others feel that it is too early to made official announcement about phpng). > There were a couple of iteration on improving the text, but it is still not > up to our standards imo: > > http://git.php.net/?p=web/php.git;a=history;f=archive/entries/2014-05-27-1.xml > ; > It is already on hackernews and reddit, so while some people suggested, I > think it would be a bad move to just remove it. > > Would like to know what do you guys think about the best step, I see the > following possible options: > > - keep it as is > - remove it > - rewrite it to be more formal and factual(only talk about what it is > atm. not what it could be in the future). > - create a post explaining that this post is controversional among the > core-devs, so it is reflects more of the authors opinion than the projects > official view on the topic. > > I'm mostly interested on the opinion of the core devs, but others also > welcome to reply. Wow. How unprofessional on so many levels!! Unfortunately it seems this has been picked up already by a lot of folks incl. I just got a press inquiry on it. While my instinct would say just remove it, I think it’s not an option anymore. I think we need to write something very short and sweet that has zero opinion and only fact and post it instead. Andi