And how do they approach the issue? How effective is their approach? Currently I don't see any result of it.
About won't change - I don't agree. At leas for someone it would. The more people see something the more they believe in it. This is exactly how propaganda works On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, 7:59 PM Chase Peeler <chasepee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 >
