# What's up with github.com/php-src?

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/104317
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/104317
- Started by Bishop Bettini on 2019-02-09T04:46:02+00:00
- Messages: 7
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## #104317 — Bishop Bettini — 2019-02-09T04:46:02+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/104317#104317

Having mistakenly cloned php-src/php <https://github.com/php-src/php>
instead of php/php-src <https://github.com/php/php-src> (again), I figured
I'd ask -- is php-src used for anything?

The code seems to be quite old, and the content of php-src/php-src.github.io
<https://github.com/php-src/php-src.github.io> is a music video. Neither
seems productive to the PHP community.

Am I missing something?

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## #104319 — Ben Ramsey — 2019-02-09T14:08:53+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/104317#104319

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> 
> Having mistakenly cloned php-src/php <https://github.com/php-src/php>
> instead of php/php-src <https://github.com/php/php-src> (again), I figured
> I'd ask -- is php-src used for anything?
> 
> The code seems to be quite old, and the content of php-src/php-src.github.io
> <https://github.com/php-src/php-src.github.io> is a music video. Neither
> seems productive to the PHP community.
> 
> Am I missing something?


My guess is that someone set up the php-src GitHub organization to troll people, since the Rebecca Black “Friday” music video is clearly a kind of rickroll. :-)

Probably no one here controls that organization—or is unwilling to admit it. I wonder if we can ask GitHub to close it since it causes confusion?

Cheers,
Ben

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## #104320 — Derick Rethans — 2019-02-09T14:33:01+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/104317#104320

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> > […]
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> My guess is that someone set up the php-src GitHub organization to 
> troll people, since the Rebecca Black “Friday” music video is clearly 
> a kind of rickroll. :-)

That commit was done by Leigh <leight@gmail.com>, which was active on 
internals in 2016. Perhaps we should ask them to remove it?

cheers,
Derick

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## #104321 — Leigh — 2019-02-09T16:00:02+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/104317#104321

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> > […]
> figured
> > […]
> php-src.github.io
> > […]
> Neither
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Indeed. It was meant as a joke, not to deceive anyone. I'll take it down :)


>
> That commit was done by Leigh <leight@gmail.com>, which was active on
> internals in 2016. Perhaps we should ask them to remove it?
>
> cheers,
> Derick

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## #104322 — Ben Ramsey — 2019-02-09T16:08:48+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/104317#104322

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> 
> Indeed. It was meant as a joke, not to deceive anyone. I'll take it down :)

FWIW, I thought it was hilarious. :-)

-Ben

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## #104323 — Dan Ackroyd — 2019-02-09T16:10:48+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/104317#104323

> My guess is that someone set up the php-src GitHub organization to troll people, since the Rebecca Black “Friday” music video is clearly a kind of rickroll. :-)

Happy Rebecca Day!

> > […]

The lack in process of Github in making sure that people don't land
grab popular project names is.....disconcerting.

FYI, I grabbed https://github.com/php-pecl a while ago, in case it was
ever needed and to prevent 'bad guys' from hosting altered versions of
extensions on there.

cheers
Dan

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## #104330 — Bishop Bettini — 2019-02-10T04:10:52+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/104317#104330

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> Indeed. It was meant as a joke, not to deceive anyone. I'll take it down :)


Thanks for removing php-src/php, Leigh.