# RFC: Using and Mentioning Third-party Packages in PHP Documentation and Web Projects (process) - Status: Withdrawn - Authors: Jim Winstead, jimw@php.net - Date: 2024-08-24 - Version: 0.2 - Original: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/web-and-doc-use-not-endorsement - Page: https://externals.io/rfc/web-and-doc-use-not-endorsement - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · RFCs at https://externals.io/rfc.md · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt ## Discussions on the mailing list - [\[RFC\] \[Discussion\] Using and Mentioning Third-party Packages in PHP Documentation and Web Projects](https://externals.io/message/125279.md) — started on 2024-08-26, 31 messages --- ## Introduction The PHP project has had a long-standing but unwritten, vague, and inconsistently applied proscription against mentioning or using third-party PHP projects on the grounds that it implies some sort of endorsement over other third-party projects. This has impacted the web projects (bugs.php.net, etc) and documentation in ways that seem harmful to the overall PHP community. ## Proposal Adopt this statement of principle: > The web, documentation, infrastructure, and any auxiliary projects within the PHP Project can use or document the existence of third-party PHP projects as part of their roles in supporting the overall PHP community. Such use does not represent endorsement of those third-party projects by the PHP Project. ## Open Issues - None yet. ## Future Scope - None, except this guidance could be changed in the future by another RFC or subsequent governance mechanism. ## Proposed Voting Choices - Adopt the statement of principle in this proposal? Yes/No ## References - Drama that ensued when a third-party development dependency was pushed into web-bugs: - PR to add references to Composer and Packagist to the documentation: - PR to add mention of AMPPS installer: - Discussion of this draft RFC: