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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Community to support Ukraine and help to stop
 Russian agression
From: arvids.godjuks@gmail.com (Arvids Godjuks)

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On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 at 11:31, Victor Bolshov <crocodile2u@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello internals.
>
> In these dark days for humanity, we as people of civilization, people
> of sanity, kind and caring people with children and families - we have
> to speak up, loud and clear, in support for Ukraine. To stop Russian
> aggression.
>
> I suggest to add Ukranian flag and a supportive anti-war disclaimer to
> the header of php.net website.
>
> Why is this important? There are a lot of PHP developers in Russia. A
> lot of them, sadly, have been brainwashed by Putin's propaganda. They
> still must have a lot of respect to PHP authors and creators. Seeing
> that these people, who have their respect, are against the war and for
> the freedom of Ukraine, might have an impact.
>
> This is not the time to "stay away from politics", we are experiencing
> an attack on humanity itself. Take example from
> <https://junit.org/junit5/> and their clear statement.
>
> Say NO to war!
>
>

As someone from Baltics and living there still - yeah, colour be yellow and
blue all the way.

But I also think we should leave php.net out of it - this is not a project
with a core tea - this is a very distributed project that probably touches
almost every single country on this planet.

Another reason - just look what happened to the React's issue tracker:
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues  - you can bet your life on it
that this will happen to the PHP project as soon as there is anything on
this topic done. Does the project has resources to deal with it? I mean,
this is basically a DDoS that can be solved only by closing off issue
creation from public.

It's just impractical and will ruin maintainers and contributors ability to
do their work for the foreseeable future.
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Arv=C4=ABds Godjuks
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