> On Mar 1, 2021, at 11:09, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote: > > This is your early, advance warning that RM selection for the PHP 8.1 > branch will be coming up in April. Please start thinking about whether or > not you would like to put your hat in the ring. Feel free to volunteer now, > or any time over the coming weeks. Additional announcements will be > forthcoming as we approach the selection date. On April 12th > (provisional), Gabriel or I will announce the list of candidates and, if > more than two candidates have volunteered, open a vote. > > A description of our release process can be found at > https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/docs/release-process.md and > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess > > Notably, at least one of the volunteers must be a "veteran" release manager > meaning they have participated in at least one release of PHP in the past. > The other may be an additional veteran, or more ideally, someone new to the > RM role (in order to increase our supply of veteran RMs). Regardless of > who is participating, you'll have access to all active release managers to > help get you up and running. > > Let's all make PHP awesome! > -Sara Golemon and Gabriel Caruso, your PHP 8.0 Release Managers
Wow! I’m excited to see all the new folks interested in volunteering as an RM. I think that’s a pretty good indication of the health of our community. :-) I’ll also toss my hat into the ring for consideration as one of the newbie 8.1 RMs. I’ve been building PHP applications for over 20 years, and I’ve been involved with the community in one form or another for about 17 years. I’ve written for *php[architect]* and *International PHP Magazine* (when it was still around), and I co-authored a book with Davey Shafik, of which I’m currently working (slowly) on a 4th edition, updated for PHP 8.0 (and maybe 8.1, depending on timing). When conferences were still a thing, I spoke at many, and I ran a PHP Community Conference in 2011 in Nashville, TN, US. I’m the author and maintainer of a number of Composer packages, including ramsey/uuid, league/oauth2-client, ramsey/composer-repl, and others, and I’ve made a few small contributions to PHP core over the years. I’m currently a co-organizer of the Nashville PHP user group and I helped launch the Atlanta PHP user group over 15 years ago. I say all this to say that PHP is really important to me, and I would very much like an opportunity to give back with a material impact on the core. Furthermore, I want to help the next generation of PHP RMs and core developers by mentoring and training them, once I’ve learned the ropes. Thank you for considering me for the role of RM, and best of luck to all the other volunteers! Cheers, Ben
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