Re: [RFC] Remove the links to X.com from PHP.net

On Sun, Apr 12, 2026, at 12:54 PM, Jorg Sowa wrote: > Please, instead of focusing on American political debates, spend time > investigating how to properly manage the assets of the PHP Group. If > it’s true that this account was official and was lost, it poses a risk > of similar issues in the future. > > And regarding the political statements in this group. This is a perfect > group, and you are the perfect people to asses it. Technology project > is the best place for such statements. Please continue it, because it's > most important part of this discussion. > > Kind regards, > Jorg > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM Jim Winstead <jimw@trainedmonkey.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2026, at 10:17 AM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> > I don't think we should be bringing politics into it, >> >> To be clear: to have, as you propose, an official account on a platform controlled by a >> transphobic white supremacist would most definitely be bringing politics into it. That is not a >> neutral choice. >> >> Jim Access was not "lost." PHP has never had a formal way to even define "official" accounts on anything. It's always been "trusted person X decided person Y was trustworthy, so when Y volunteered to do something X handed them keys." All of PHP's "official" social media accounts are technically "run by some dude we're on good terms with." If you consider that a sloppy and unreasonable way to run a major OSS project, well, I agree, but that's the project's fault, not that dude's fault. In this case, that dude has long since stopped posting on X, for the reasons already mentioned. (I support that decision.) Unless we're going to force the issue and set up a new account for PHP to "officially" post on X, removing the existing link is an obvious and mundane decision. Linking to a dead account is kinda pointless. --Larry Garfield