On Thu, Nov 6, 2025, at 10:02, Tim Düsterhus wrote: > Hi > > I just opened voting on the "Clarify discussion and voting period rules" > RFC. Please find the following resources: > > - RFC Text: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/rfc_discussion_and_vote > - Implementation PR: https://github.com/php/policies/pull/23 > - Discussion Thread: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/128594 > > The RFC contains a single primary vote requiring a 2/3 majority. Voting > will close 2025-11-20 09:30:00 UTC. > > ---------------- > > As during the discussion, I'd like to explicitly spell out some of the > things that I took into account. > > It is now 2025-11-06 08:54 UTC (and will be a little later when I > actually hit send). > > - The last change to the RFC was a Major Change on 2025-10-23 07:37:43 > UTC: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/128921 > - The Intent to Vote announcement was sent on 2025-11-04 08:45:24 UTC: > https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/129063 > - There was no further feedback to take into account after the last > Major Change (and thus neither after the Intent to Vote). > > A little more than 14 days have passed since the last major change. A > little more than 2 days have passed since the Intent to Vote > announcement. Both is strictly within the proposed rules. The RFC was > not inactive, since the last email was my Major Change announcement, > which happened less than 42 days ago. > > This email contains all the necessary information, namely the link to > the RFC text, Discussion Thread, a list of the number of votes to cast > and the end date. I also included a link to the implementation, since > this is the main relevant thing for a policy RFC. Voting will close a > little over 14 days from now. I have specified some buffer room to > account for “mail delivery delay”. > > I will make sure to add a link to the archives of the voting thread as > soon as I see it appear in the archives. > > Best regards > Tim Düsterhus
May I ask, as a follow-up task, to add some kind of copy/pastable templates to the rfc:howto (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto)? For example, what information needs to be sent in major/minor/editorial changes? Do you need to declare which type of change it is and its effect, or is it simply assumed everyone knows? I'm just asking because the proceedure isn't clear (I was trying to follow it): > _Major and minor changes MUST be announced in the official discussion thread, > either in a dedicated email summarizing a list of changes or in a reply to > another email that clearly indicates that changes to the RFC text have been > made in response to that email._ Does this mean "A major change has been made" as in literally announcing the type of change, or just that the change must be announced? — Rob
