On Thu, Mar 13, 2025, at 15:59, Calvin Buckley wrote: > 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/php85 > > Let's all make PHP awesome! > Calvin Buckley, Saki Takamachi, and Eric Mann >
Hello, I'd like to toss my name into the hat. I've been on the list for awhile now, but in the last year or two, I started actually speaking up. I first learned C in 1998, and switched to C# in 2005, and finally PHP in 2012. My C was a bit rusty (no, that is not a pun), but it gets better every week that I fiddle and tinker with php-src. I don't feel confident enough to be active on github, but I would like to change that. PHP has paid my bills long enough; it is time to return the favor; if you'll have me. — Rob
