On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 8:19 AM Ondřej Mirtes <ond...@mirtes.cz> wrote:
> The main reason is to be able to vote on PHP RFCs. I've created and have > been maintaining PHPStan, a popular open-source static analyser. > > This submission is endorsed by Gabriel Caruso, a current release manager of > PHP 8. > > My wiki.php.net username is: ondrejmirtes > > Thank you. > > Ondřej Mirtes > Hi Ondrej, I believe it is important to remember that voting is just the last step of the RFC process: While the vote is the final arbiter, the discussion phase that precedes it is where concerns are heard and the proposal is shaped. Granting voting rights to persons not contributing to projects under the php.net umbrella has historically been a bit of a touchy topic. The last request of this type by Nicolas Grekas was granted specifically because he was already a long-time active participant of the PHP internals mailing list, and provided valuable insight, especially regarding the impact of changes in PHP on Symfony and its ecosystem. I think that this is an important criterion. Before granting voting requests, I would really like to see some participation in RFC discussions on the mailing list. A vote is just a single bit of information, while your thoughtful insight on how language changes may interact with static analysis will help shape proposals in a much more significant way. Regards, Nikita
