On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:09 AM Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote:
> This is your early, advance warning that RM selection for the PHP 8.1 > branch will be coming up in April. Please start thinking about whether or > not you would like to put your hat in the ring. Feel free to volunteer now, > or any time over the coming weeks. Additional announcements will be > forthcoming as we approach the selection date. On April 12th > (provisional), Gabriel or I will announce the list of candidates and, if > more than two candidates have volunteered, open a vote. > > A description of our release process can be found at > https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/docs/release-process.md and > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess > > Notably, at least one of the volunteers must be a "veteran" release > manager meaning they have participated in at least one release of PHP in > the past. The other may be an additional veteran, or more ideally, someone > new to the RM role (in order to increase our supply of veteran RMs). > Regardless of who is participating, you'll have access to all active > release managers to help get you up and running. > > A gentle reminder to submit yourselves for the PHP 8.1 Release Manager job. It really takes nothing more than a little bit of time. We've got two "newbie" volunteers already, but we should ideally have a veteral available. So I'm especially calling for some old timers to step up and teach the kids some new tricks. Let's all make PHP awesome! -Sara Golemon and Gabriel Caruso, your PHP 8.0 Release Managers
