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.
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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
