Hi, > On Jul 31, 2026, at 10:52, Tim Düsterhus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > On 2026-07-31 15:09, Paul M. Jones wrote: >>> In fact the start of the vote is in violation of our policy, since there >>> was no “intent to vote” message in the last 7 days. >> Ah so -- my apologies. I'll pull the vote and wait for ... looks like ~6 >> weeks? > > According to policy you could cancel the vote now, which results in a 2-week > cooldown, which means you could theoretically re-open in the middle of August > (after another “Intent to Vote”). > > However given the preliminary voting results and under the assumption that > folks didn't just vote against due to the policy violation, it is likely not > useful to reopen the vote without making further changes - or without the > circumstances changing (specifically your “Strict Namespace Resolution” RFC > getting a decision). In any case, there will be plenty of time until PHP 8.7. > > Without giving it detailed thought, I believe “Namespaced function, Autoload > namespaced function, Global fallback” (i.e. swap steps 2 and 3) would result > in much more predictable semantics already - the global fallback would work > just as before, it just wouldn't have autoloading support. It's quite > possible I'm changing my mind on that as well when I think more about it, but > I wanted to provide some food for thought as to how the RFC could possibly be > adjusted to make it better.
Sure, no hurry on my part. Can come back to it after 8.6 is fully out the door. I have edited the RFC to set the vote to "closed" -- let me know if some other approach is preferred. Thanks! -- pmj
