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Subject: [PHP-DEV] Release Managers for PHP 8.5
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:59:11 -0300
To: php internals <internals@lists.php.net>
From: calvin@cmpct.info (Calvin Buckley)

Hi all,

It's time to start the process of finding and electing RMs for the next
minor PHP release.

We are looking for three souls to take on this role. Whomsoever is elected
will be guided and helped by the current, as well as previous RMs and the
excellent documentation in release-process.md [1].

Candidates should have a reasonable knowledge of internals, 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. Ideally, at least one of candidate
should be a core developer that can assess more technical PR's. Other
candidates do not necessarily need to have deep knowledge of internals but
should understand above mentioned points.

Notably, at least one of the volunteers must be a "veteran" release manager,
meaning they have participated in at least one release of PHP in the past.
The other may be an additional veteran, or more ideally, someone new to the
RM role (in order to increase our supply of veteran RMs).

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 [2].

[1] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/docs/release-process.md
[2] https://wiki.php.net/todo/php85

Let's all make PHP awesome!
Calvin Buckley, Saki Takamachi, and Eric Mann