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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GitHub RFC workflow
From: mike@newclarity.net (Mike Schinkel)

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> =
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kevn7/spain-and-github-are-blocking-an=
-app-that-helped-protesters-organize
> =
https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/2019/2019-10-26-=
GuardiaCivil.md

It would seem to me that if any country decided that downloading and =
working with PHP were against the law, it would not matter where we =
hosted it, GitHub or php.net <http://php.net/>.

If for some reason a country got mad and decided to block GitHub, we =
could easily set up a mirror at BitBucket or some other repository and =
thus allow people from that country to contribute to PHP/

In addition if it became a problem for someone to access discussions, we =
collectively could use the GItHub API to write a mirror of discussions =
so people could read and contribute to support those people in the =
"banned country" just as easily as building all infrastructure from =
scratch that nobody have thus far found time to get around to build =
proactively.

So given all those concerns are currently hypothetical =E2=80=94 since =
PHP is not an app for organizing protests nor is it an advocacy group =
for a maligned minority =E2=80=94 maybe we should just keep our eye on =
potential problems so that if potential problems arise we can implement =
a workaround, but until then we just use was works best today?

#JMTCW

-Mike



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