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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] "Abstain" voting option for RFCs
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi

On 7/23/25 00:03, Tim Düsterhus wrote:
> This message is intended to begin the official discussion period. While
> it would be great to bring this policy into effect before any RFCs
> targeting PHP 8.6, I'll make sure to monitor the (list) activity with
> regard to folks being busy finalizing their own RFCs (and enjoying their
> summer vacations [1]) to make sure everyone had plenty of opportunity to
> participate in the discussion, so I would expect a vote around end of
> August at the earliest.

It turns out that most of the RFCs for PHP 8.5 have already been merged 
for Beta 1 / soft freeze and the others are making good progress. 
There's also little list activity overall.

The discussion for this RFC also didn't really bring up any major issues 
or points of contention (other than “is this really necessary”, which 
can be decided by the vote).

I therefore plan to open the vote at the end of the week / early next 
week, which is a bit earlier than initially suggested. Of course if 
anything worth discussing pops up after this email or someone asks for 
additional time to review, we'll wait for that.

As of now the commit that will be voted on is 
de94b7a132c4a74e54e7848914203f1849231697 in 
https://github.com/php/policies/pull/20.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus