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
