Congratulations Sergei and Pierrick! Cheers, Evan
On May 18, 2022, Ben Ramsey <ram...@php.net> wrote: > > On May 11, 2022, at 09:51, Ben Ramsey <ram...@php.net> wrote: > > > > Happy middle of the week, everyone! > > > > We’ve had another great turn-out for PHP Release Manager selection > this year. > > > > In the role of “Veteran” release manager, Ben Ramsey[0] (that’s me!) > has volunteered to mentor two rookies, so there will be two seats up > for grabs. As I mentioned in an earlier message, Joe and I discussed > that it might be a good practice to have one of the rookie RMs from > the current release serve as the veteran for the next release. In this > way, any new advances or changes to the process will be carried > forward to the “next generation” much more smoothly. So, we’re going > to give that a try and see how well it works. > > > > For those two rookie seats, we’ve got seven eager candidates for > your consideration [1-7]. Some of these included a statement about > their background in 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. > > > > Voting is now open on https://wiki.php.net/todo/php82 using “Single > Transferrable Vote” (STV). Those who participated in prior elections > will recognize the format; for the rest, the TL;DR is that it allows > each voter to state their preference order by voting multiple times. > There are seven polls on the wiki for your seven preferences, in > descending order. Using some math that I’ll leave to Wikipedia[8] 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 8.1 Release Managers, > > Ben Ramsey, Patrick Allaert, & Joe Watkins > > > > Vote Opens: 11 May 2022 > > Vote Closes: 18 May 2022 > > > > Refs: > > 0 - Ben Ramsey: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/117664 > > 1 - Sergey Panteleev: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/117596 > > 2 - Evan Sims: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/117621 > > 3 - Aaron Junker: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/117623 > > 4 - Calvin Buckley: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/117627 > > 5 - Eric Mann: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/117629 > > 6 - Pierrick Charron: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/117650 > > 7 - Saif Eddin Gmati: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/117702 > > 8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote > > > > The polls have closed, and Derick’s scripts have tallied the > votes.[^1] > > Our 8.2 “rookie” release managers are: > > * Sergey Panteleev > * Pierrick Charron > > Congratulations! > > Thank you to all the candidates! I hope you’ll consider putting in > your name for future release manager elections, and as always, PHP > needs your help in many other ways, so please continue to volunteer > and help out. > > Sergey and Pierrick, I’ll be in touch with you soon to get you started > on the first alpha release of 8.2, due out on 9 June. > > Cheers, > Ben > > > [^1]: https://gist.github.com/derickr/f13396ce8d9c0ed7bc84a23ba15d5406
