[VOTE] Remove the links to X.com from PHP.net

Hi

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.

Hi,

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.

Thanks.

Jim

Two data points:

Python Software Foundation is still on X:

• 2x more followers than in 2021
• 5x fewer interactions on the average post than in 2021

Rust stopped posting to X a year ago and removed links from its website

• People still talk about Rust
  • Maybe a bit too much