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Subject: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Discussion] Social Media and Marketing Communications Policy
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From: roman@pronskiy.com (Roman Pronskiy)

Hi internals,

I'd like to start a discussion on an RFC proposing a formal policy for
PHP's official social media presence and marketing communications.

RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/social-media-policy
Policy PR: https://github.com/php/policies/pull/32

The proposal addresses three gaps in current practice:

1. Custodianship of credentials for official accounts is not formally
defined, with no documented succession procedures.

2. There is no documented process for content decisions on official
channels =E2=80=94 what gets posted, by whom, and under what authority.

3. There is no framework for deciding which platforms PHP should
maintain presence on, leading to platform-by-platform ad-hoc
decisions.

The policy text itself lives in the php/policies repo (PR linked
above). The wiki RFC is a wrapper proposing its adoption. Inline
comments on specific policy text are welcome on the PR.

The proposal reflects feedback already received on the previous draft.
Further feedback is welcome.

-Roman