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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [8.1] Release Manager Election
From: gunnard@gunnard.org (Gunnard Engebreth)

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On 4/5/21 4:59 PM, Sara Golemon wrote:
> 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 > Hello PHP-DEV!

I will keep this short and sweat. I Have been developing with PHP for 
over 20 years. I am currently a Senior developer speaking at conferences 
and writing articles and books. All that to say -- I want to give back 
and contribute to this wonderful community that I have been on the 
outskirts of for so long. Doing research for my PHP 8 book lead me to 
follow RFCs from birth to vote which gave me an inside view of the inner 
workings of the internals. As Sara stated, along with the technical work 
there are other activities such as podcasts, talks that come with this 
role. I am more than willing and it would be an honor to represent PHP 
in these channels. I want to learn, contribute and take part with this 
community. Please reach out to me if there are any questions you have 
for me. I want to bring the best of my abilities and skills to this role.

Thank you!

Gunnard Engebreth / @gunnard / gunnard@gunnard.org




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