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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Remove the links to X.com from PHP.net
To: Jim Winstead <jimw@trainedmonkey.com>, internals@lists.php.net
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi

On 5/18/26 20:07, Jim Winstead wrote:
> I just opened voting for the "Remove the links to X.com from PHP.net" RFC.
> 
> The RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove-link-to-x-from-php-net
> The PR: https://github.com/php/web-php/pull/1879
> The discussion thread:https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130610
> 
> Voting runs until 2026-06-03 17:00:00 UTC. There is just one vote to cast.

Thank you for your RFC. I voted against it, because I believe that the 
RFC is poorly written and executed.

In particular I believe it is asking the wrong question with the "RFC 
Impact" section also drawing a conclusion that I don't believe follows 
from the question asked: The presence or absence of a link on php.net 
does not change whether or not the @official_php account on X is an 
official presence or not.

Given that php.net linked to this account, I consider it to be an 
established fact that the account is an official account of the PHP 
project - which the RFC also acknowledges.

The question to then decide on is whether or not the account should be 
abandoned, which is something that entails more than removing the links 
from php.net (e.g. updating the bio). The removal of the link directly 
follows from the account status, not the other way around.

This is also something that Rowan noted during the discussion 
https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130733. As far as I can tell this 
email did not receive a response from you as the RFC author, in fact the 
entire subthread starting from Rowan's first email doesn't contain any 
emails from you. That's the “poorly executed” part I mentioned above: I 
feel you did not properly engage with (what I believe to be) 
well-articulated concerns regarding the RFC by either replying with 
counter-arguments or by making changes to the RFC in response.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus

PS: I'm also just noting a factual error in the RFC text itself: The 
newest post was made on 2024-06-04, whereas the RFC claims in the 
introduction that the account has not posted since 2023.