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Subject: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Clarify discussion and voting period rules
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi

I just opened voting on the "Clarify discussion and voting period rules" 
RFC. Please find the following resources:

- RFC Text: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/rfc_discussion_and_vote
- Implementation PR: https://github.com/php/policies/pull/23
- Discussion Thread: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/128594

The RFC contains a single primary vote requiring a 2/3 majority. Voting 
will close 2025-11-20 09:30:00 UTC.

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As during the discussion, I'd like to explicitly spell out some of the 
things that I took into account.

It is now 2025-11-06 08:54 UTC (and will be a little later when I 
actually hit send).

- The last change to the RFC was a Major Change on 2025-10-23 07:37:43 
UTC: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/128921
- The Intent to Vote announcement was sent on 2025-11-04 08:45:24 UTC: 
https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/129063
- There was no further feedback to take into account after the last 
Major Change (and thus neither after the Intent to Vote).

A little more than 14 days have passed since the last major change. A 
little more than 2 days have passed since the Intent to Vote 
announcement. Both is strictly within the proposed rules. The RFC was 
not inactive, since the last email was my Major Change announcement, 
which happened less than 42 days ago.

This email contains all the necessary information, namely the link to 
the RFC text, Discussion Thread, a list of the number of votes to cast 
and the end date. I also included a link to the implementation, since 
this is the main relevant thing for a policy RFC. Voting will close a 
little over 14 days from now. I have specified some buffer room to 
account for “mail delivery delay”.

I will make sure to add a link to the archives of the voting thread as 
soon as I see it appear in the archives.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus