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