Re: [VOTE] Release Managers for PHP 8.6

Hi everyone, The voting period has ended. Many thanks to Derick for volunteering to tally the votes. You can see the full details here: https://gist.github.com/edorian/139af42af2a6a955d18f2fb260bf9aeb Our "rookie" (hands-on) PHP 8.6 release managers are: - Matteo Beccati - Joe Ferguson Running unopposed, our senior (hands-off) release manager for PHP 8.6 is: - Daniel Scherzer. Further steps are described in the "New release manager" checklist [1]. Please get in touch with Daniel to coordinate. Thank you to everyone else who put their name forward and volunteered to help out. It is very much appreciated. [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/87499e44f29137847b95aa5cd1a130d1c3c5b276/docs/release-process.md#new-release-manager-checklist Cheers, Volker On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 8:01 PM Volker Dusch <edorian@php.net> wrote: > > Hey folks, > > In the role of "Veteran" release manager, Daniel Scherzer [1], the PHP > 8.5 release manager, has volunteered to mentor the two rookie/hands-on > RMs. > > For those two rookie seats, we've received applications from 7 > candidates for your consideration [3-9]. > > Voting is now open on https://wiki.php.net/todo/php86 using > "Single > Transferable Vote" (STV). > > Those who participated in prior elections will recognize the format; > for the rest, the TL;DR is that it allows each voter to state their > preference order by voting multiple times. > > There are seven polls on the wiki for your seven preferences, in > descending order. Details can be found on Wikipedia[2]. > > We will start with everyone's 1st preference and gradually remove > candidates with the fewest votes, transferring votes that had > previously gone to them to their voter’s 2nd preference, and so on. > Once two candidates have a quorum (Droop quota), those will be > officially selected as our RMs. > As explained on the Wiki page, voting for the same individual twice > will not have an effect. > > If you want to Abstain from the vote entirely, select "Abstain" in the > first widget, if you want to abstain from further preferences, please > just skip the remaining widgets. > > -- > > As you consider each candidate, please bear in mind that this is a > 4.5-year commitment and is a position of trust. > > Thank you in advance for your consideration. > > Kind Regards, > Volker Dusch > > Vote Opens: 31 March 2025 18:00:00 UTC > Vote Closes: 15 April 2025 18:00:00 UTC > > Refs: > [1] https://wiki.php.net/todo/php86#:~:text=Voting > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote > [3] Joe Ferguson: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130241 > [4] Jordi Kroon: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130242 > [5] Paul Dragoonis: > https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130244 > [6] Matteo Beccati: > https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130248 > [7] Aggelos Bellos: > https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130404 > [8] Pierre Tondereau: > https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130455 > [9] Patrick Martin: > https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130524