On 20 July 2026 10:59:19 BST, Matteo Beccati <[email protected]> wrote: >As much as I like this RFC, I'm afraid it came in a little too late. > >According to our reminders: > >> Any RFC intended for inclusion in PHP 8.6 must have its discussion concluded >> and its voting closed before August 13 > >which isn't technically possible for this RFC if the voting period has to be >two weeks, even if no major discussion or modification happens. > >Unless my calculations are off, of course.
Just to confirm this with reference to policy: - https://github.com/php/policies/blob/main/release-process.rst lists feature freeze as "$rd + 40", and states that all RFCs must be approved by that date - https://github.com/php/policies/blob/main/feature-proposals.rst requires a minimum 14 day "cooldown period" from the initial announcement, and then a minimum 14 day voting period - so cut-off is for an RFC to be in its final state by "$rd + 12" (40 - 14 - 14) $rd is release date of first alpha, which was on July 2nd, so $rd+12 was July 14th. Any RFC which was announced, or received a "major change", after that date, no longer has time to be approved before feature freeze. Perhaps this milestone should be added explicitly to the "todo" wiki page in future. (The release policy actually has an ambiguity: it says alpha1 should be tagged on "first Tuesday in July", but released "before first Thursday in July". This year, the first Thursday came *before* the first Tuesday, so it was impossible to follow both requirements. The RMs apparently took the Thursday as the important deadline, and the tag was created on Tue June 30th, "$rd-2", which seems reasonable. I'll raise a PR if nobody else gets there first.) Regards, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]
