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Hi,

My name is Daniel, and I'm involved with the PHP open source project.

We've been having problems with people being abusive in the project, and I've been thinking quite deeply about what needs to be done to prevent abuse from overwhelming the project.

A good example of the problem is the behaviour of this guy in this comment: php/php-src#5313 (comment)

He's clearly making other people feel like crap, but by itself, that comment isn't bad enough to get him blocked from github.

For large projects like PHP, we really need to be able to use external access control systems, not only to make it possible to prevent abuse across all of the different systems we use in that project, but also to control things like who can comment on PRs, who can tag releases etc.

I've written down a short note about what I think might work at: https://github.com/AlwaysSeptember/AccessControl

I have strong feelings about the problems facing opensource, and I think preventing abuse while keeping projects open is the most important problem that needs solving.

Please could you tell me how I could get in touch with your product team, to push this conversation further?

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