Hi all, It's time to start the process of finding and electing RMs for the next minor PHP release.
We are looking for three souls to take on this role. Whomsoever is elected will be guided and helped by the current, as well as previous RMs and the excellent documentation in release-process.md [1]. Candidates should have a reasonable knowledge of internals, be confident about merging pull requests without breaking backward compatibility, doing triage for bugs, liaising with previous release managers, and generally getting the branch in good shape, as these are among the activities you will be undertaking as release manager. Ideally, at least one of candidate should be a core developer that can assess more technical PR's. Other candidates do not necessarily need to have deep knowledge of internals but should understand above mentioned points. 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). Please put your name forward here if you wish to be considered a candidate. An initial TODO page has been added to the wiki and contains provisional dates for GA and pre-releases [2]. [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/docs/release-process.md [2] https://wiki.php.net/todo/php84 Let's all make PHP awesome! Jakub Zelenka, Eric Mann & Pierrick Charron
