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Subject: Re: PHP 7.3 Release Manager Selection
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 5:56 PM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:
> So, I woke up this morning and looked at my calendar, and I realized
> we're less than two months away from a timely release of 7.3.0-alpha1.
> This is somewhat awkward as we currently lack named Release Managers
> for the 7.3 branch.
>
> As usual, the role calls for two suckers^W volunteers to take on this
> task. Whomsoever is elected will be guided and helped by Remi and I,
> as well as previous RMs and the excellent documentation in
> php-src:README.RELEASE_PROCESS.
>
> Candidates should have a reasonable knowledge of internals (without
> necessarily being a C guru), be confident about merging pull requests
> without breaking backward compatibility, doing triage for bugs,
> liaising with previous release managers, and generally getting the
> branch in good shape, as these are among the activities you will be
> undertaking as release manager.
>
> Please put your name forward here if you wish to be considered a candidate.
> An initial todo page has been added to the wiki and contains
> provisional dates for GA and pre-releases.
> https://wiki.php.net/todo/php73
>

Topic bump as nobody has tossed their hat in yet.  There's some time
left before the pre-release cycle starts, but it'd be nice to have
some names before it gets down to the line.

Kalle voluntold Nikita and Christoph, could those two respond with
either "Yeah sure" or "No thanks"?

-Sara