Hi all,
In the role of “Veteran” release manager, Eric Mann [0], the PHP 8.3 release manager,
has volunteered to mentor two rookies, so there will be two seats up for grabs.
For those two rookie seats, we’ve got three eager candidates for your consideration [1-4].
Voting is now open on https://wiki.php.net/todo/php84 using “Single Transferrable Vote” (STV).
Those who participated in prior elections will recognize the format;
for the rest, the TL;DR is that it allows each voter to state their preference order by voting multiple times.
There are three polls on the wiki for your three preferences, in descending order.
Using some math that I’ll leave to Wikipedia[5] 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.
I will ask Derick Rethans to proctor the tabulation of the votes, since he hopefully has still scripts from last year.
As you consider each candidate, please bear in mind that this is a 3.5 year (or potentially 4.5 if the extended security support RFC passes) commitment and is a position of trust.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Your 8.3 Release Managers,
Jakub Zelenka, Eric Mann & Pierrick Charron
Vote Opened: 2 April 2023 15:00:00 UTC
Vote Closes: 16 April 2023 15:00:00 UTC
Refs:
0 - Eric Mann: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/122580
1 - Yuya Hamada: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/122577
2 - Calvin Buckley: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/122586
3 - Saki Takamachi: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/122587
4 - Matteo Beccati: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/122591
5 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote