Re: Re: about the latest frontpage entry

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > Personally I think that it would be counter-productive to remove this > entry now, I think the best course of action would be improving the entry > to remove the controversial parts (what you already mentioned doing it > yourself), and as nobody argued against the intention of the post, I think > it would be nice to start up an official blog where we can put up these > kind of posts in the future. > > > > I think the very existence of this message is controversial in the sense > that we don’t have anything similar to this message on www.php.net. I > think removing it and putting a clear removal message instead, with > pointers to what phpng is makes the most sense. > > FWIW, I am arguing against the intention of the post in the sense that it > uses www.php.net to ‘fight’ misinformation on news sites. That can be > done on Twitter, blogs, or comment sections. As I think you pointed out, > we never did it before, not when people wrote the ‘fractal of bad design’ > and not when PHP was accused of being insecure. In that latter case, which > was all the rage back in 2006, I used my own blog to fight this > misconception, not www.php.net. > > > > Zeev > I agree that this doesn't belong to the frontpage, nor do we did ever have stuff like this there. But I also think that removing it would do more harm than good at this point. I also think that having a easier to understand channel and posts like this to communicate the roadmap and development of the project would be a nice thing to have (as long as we don't try to use the frontpage for that). So I would suggest checking out the updated version from Levi, and discuss if it still has any controversial stuff. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu