Post by @jimw@mefi.social

2026-05-21 21:50 UTC

@ilia@phpc.social As others have pointed out, pmj insisted that the political reasoning be made explicit. (I won’t speculate on why he seems to think I was ever ashamed of my very political stance on this.) The tell is that your vote on the principle that politics should not have been mentioned is to pick the “no” side in the politics of it. The “abstain” option was right there.

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@ilia@phpc.social 2026-05-21 22:37

@jimw@mefi.social I don't understand the pmj reasoning. There is a genuine point here that linking to a social media account no longer used, sends a completely wrong message and quite frankly anyone following that account on X (that states it is official) while not even publishing release announcement does a disservice to PHP. That being said, while Abstain would've a been a more neutral position, I objected to politicizing on principle. I hope we can get a "clean" RFC and just remove the link. My 0.02

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@ilia@phpc.social 2026-05-21 22:44

@jimw@mefi.social Separately, not even sure this needs RFC, it is essentially removal of a "broken link". I think removal commit + mention in php-dev would've been sufficient and perhaps RFC on general PHP social media policy/approach would've been best.

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