On 4/5/21 4:59 PM, Sara Golemon wrote:
Happy Monday, everyone (unless it's Tuesday, in which case: Happy > Tuesday!); > > We've had an INCREDIBLE turn-out for PHP 8.1 Release
Manager > selection this year. > > In the role of "Veteran" release
manager, Joe Watkins[0] has kindly > stepped up and offered to mentor
two rookies, so there will be two > seats up for grabs, even though Joe
will be an automatic selection > (as the only available veteran). > >
For those two rookie seats, we've got eight eager candidates for > your
consideration [1-8]. Some of these included a statement about > their
background with their initial email volunteering for the role, > the
rest I encourage to reply to this thread providing some > background on
why they'll be awesome. > > In one week, I'll open the voting on
https://wiki.php.net/todo/php81 > using "Single Transferrable Vote"
(STV). Those who participated in > prior elections will recognize the
format, for the reset: the TL;DR > is that it allows each voter to state
their preference order by > voting multiple times. There will be six
votes on the wiki for 1st, > 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th preference.
Using some math that I'll > leave to Wikipedia[9] to explain, we'll
start with the 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.
Derick Rethans > has volunteered to proctor the tabulation of the votes
since he still > has scripts from last year. :) > > As you consider each
candidate, please bear in mind that this is a > 3.5 year commitment and
is a position of trust. > > Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Your 8.0 Release > Managers, -Sara Golemon and Gabriel Caruso > > Vote
Opens: 12 April 2021 Vote Closes: 26 April 2021 > > Refs: 0 - Joe
Watkins: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113882 > 1 - Adiel
Cristo: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113335 2 - > Gunnard
Engebreth: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113438 3 - > Harm
Smits: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113706 4 - Eric > Van
Johnson: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113728 5 - > Patrick
Allaert: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113737 6 - > Sergey
Panteleev: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113760 7 - > Ben
Ramsey: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113782 8 - Saif > Eddin
Gmati: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113887 9 - >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote > Hello PHP-DEV!
I will keep this short and sweat. I Have been developing with PHP for
over 20 years. I am currently a Senior developer speaking at conferences
and writing articles and books. All that to say -- I want to give back
and contribute to this wonderful community that I have been on the
outskirts of for so long. Doing research for my PHP 8 book lead me to
follow RFCs from birth to vote which gave me an inside view of the inner
workings of the internals. As Sara stated, along with the technical work
there are other activities such as podcasts, talks that come with this
role. I am more than willing and it would be an honor to represent PHP
in these channels. I want to learn, contribute and take part with this
community. Please reach out to me if there are any questions you have
for me. I want to bring the best of my abilities and skills to this role.
Thank you!
Gunnard Engebreth / @gunnard / gunn...@gunnard.org
