On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 12:56 PM Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All the world currently talks about the situation in Ukraine. Everyone who > knows the truth are trying to help stop invasion. The main problem here is > that most of Russian people believe in Putin's political position. Moreover > they will have Instagram and Twitter blocked soon in Russia so that they > won't be able to know the real state of things. > > Therefore our responsibility is to bring the truth to Russian people and > they will do the rest. PS. 70% of surveyed people support Putin. How else > we can inform them of what is really going on if not writing about it > everywhere? > > A banner on php.net isn't going to change their minds > If you, as PHP community, do not do anything about it, it would mean that > you don't care. Well, everyone who writes php internals is for discussion > of php internals only doesn't care and probably won't. > > This is the kind of language we need to avoid. Don't accuse people of not caring just because they don't agree with how to approach the issue. > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, 5:49 PM Arvids Godjuks <arvids.godj...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 at 11:31, Victor Bolshov <crocodil...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hello internals. > > > > > > In these dark days for humanity, we as people of civilization, people > > > of sanity, kind and caring people with children and families - we have > > > to speak up, loud and clear, in support for Ukraine. To stop Russian > > > aggression. > > > > > > I suggest to add Ukranian flag and a supportive anti-war disclaimer to > > > the header of php.net website. > > > > > > Why is this important? There are a lot of PHP developers in Russia. A > > > lot of them, sadly, have been brainwashed by Putin's propaganda. They > > > still must have a lot of respect to PHP authors and creators. Seeing > > > that these people, who have their respect, are against the war and for > > > the freedom of Ukraine, might have an impact. > > > > > > This is not the time to "stay away from politics", we are experiencing > > > an attack on humanity itself. Take example from > > > <https://junit.org/junit5/> and their clear statement. > > > > > > Say NO to war! > > > > > > > > > > As someone from Baltics and living there still - yeah, colour be yellow > and > > blue all the way. > > > > But I also think we should leave php.net out of it - this is not a > project > > with a core tea - this is a very distributed project that probably > touches > > almost every single country on this planet. > > > > Another reason - just look what happened to the React's issue tracker: > > https://github.com/facebook/react/issues - you can bet your life on it > > that this will happen to the PHP project as soon as there is anything on > > this topic done. Does the project has resources to deal with it? I mean, > > this is basically a DDoS that can be solved only by closing off issue > > creation from public. > > > > It's just impractical and will ruin maintainers and contributors ability > to > > do their work for the foreseeable future. > > -- > > > > Arvīds Godjuks > > +371 26 851 664 > > arvids.godj...@gmail.com > > Telegram: @psihius https://t.me/psihius > > > -- Chase Peeler chasepee...@gmail.com
