Hi Volker,
Il 03/03/2026 16:38, Volker Dusch ha scritto:
Please put your name forward here if you wish to be considered a candidate.
An initial "TODO" page exists on the wiki and contains provisional
dates for GA and pre-releases [2].
You can apply until the 30th of March. Voting will start on the 31st of March.
I'd also like to put my name forward for the 8.6 RM election.
I'm familiar with PHP internals, but not much with the ZE/JIT inner
workings.
I've been granted commit rights since the PHP 5.3 era, and my work has
focused mainly on pdo/pdo_pgsql. Over the years I've successfully led a
couple of RFCs, the most recent being the driver‑specific SQL parsers
for PDO in PHP 8.4.
I recently turned 50, which means I can now officially say I've been
contributing to open source for 25 years. Since 20+ years I've also been
organising phpday and other tech conferences in Italy.
For several years I've been running a custom CI pipeline that builds PHP
nightly and tests a selection of popular projects, helping identify
segfaults or potential BC breaks early so they can be fixed or reported
upstream.
Good luck to all fellow candidates!
Cheers
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Matteo Beccati
https://beccati.com
