PHP 8.2 Release Manager Selection

Hi all, Lately I've been doing documentation for PHP, keeping the Russian version up to date, and helping a little with the English, German and French versions. I would also like to contribute and help in other areas, such as newbie RM. If possible, my hat is in the ring. — wbr, Sergey Panteleev

On 25/04/2022 12:51, Christoph M. Becker wrote:

I could potentially be interested in helping out with this, but I do have a question about it, mainly, why hasn't most of this been automated at this point? I was reading through the release process notes and am not seeing any obvious blocks on most of it that could not be accomplished via a suitable CI/CD pipeline. Is it just a matter of someone having time available to do it? The one thing which does make me ponder is would we need to assign a GPG key to the build process? I'd be happy to give some of my time later this year to further investigate this.

Hi Internals I have some interest in doing this. I think I know PHP and git very well and I also know more or less how the PHP internal processes work. However I have two doubts/questions: 1. How much time do I need for this task? I can't really estimate this. I sure have would have some time to spare, but definitely not too much. 2. I don't really know C. The mail says you don't necessarily have to. I could learn it if necessary though. So how bad would it be if I couldn't program in or understand C? It would be nice if someone could answer them. Thanks! Best regards Aaron Junker ________________________________ From: Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> Sent: Monday, 25 April 2022, 12:52 To: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net> Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8.2 Release Manager Selection Hi all, with the first alpha of PHP 8.2 due in 6 weeks (unless we are going to change our usual schedule), I think it's time to start the process of finding and electing release managers for the next minor release of PHP. We are looking for two 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 (without necessarily being a C guru), 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. 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/php82>

Hello! I'd be eager for the opportunity to be involved as a release manager, and contributing to the PHP community I've made built my career around. I've been a PHP developer since 2000 (with the release of PHP4), and although I do not work in C in my day to day anymore, I cut my programmer teeth on the language and worked with it quite extensively previously. Today I'm the lead PHP engineer for Auth0 (now an Okta product group) in charge of our PHP SDKs. I previously worked for the non-profit Ushahidi has a Senior Engineer on their PHP-based platforms. Beyond this, and aside from my time as a technical video gamer designer, most of my freelance professional career has been around building PHP- based apps. Naturally, I live in Git these days with my work, triaging bugs. I'm a strong communicator and enjoy collaborating and engaging with the open- source community. Cheers, Evan Sims On April 25, 2022, "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:

On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 13:51 +0200, Christoph M. Becker wrote:

I'll put my name in the hat for applying to be an RM. I actually package PHP as a downstream (for IBM i users), have tried to do what I can for triaging issues (usually on behalf of my clients), and have written some PRs for upstream. The skills there should be able to inform the process as an RM, if I become one. I see some other good candidates though, so I think 8.2 will be in good hands regardless.

------- Original Message ------- On Monday, April 25th, 2022 at 12:51 PM, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:

Hello, I would like to introduce myself to those of you who might not know me, my name is Saif Eddin Gmati ( also known as "azjezz" ), i have been working with PHP for approximately 9 years. I'm currently employed as a senior developer at [Les Tilleuls](https://les-tilleuls.coop/), before that i worked at Symfony SAS, in total, i have over 3 years of professional experience. I maintain some open source projects on my free time ( e.g: [PSL](https://github.com/azjezz/psl) ), and help contribute to some other on my free time ( e.g: [Symfony](https://github.com/symfony/symfony), [Psalm](github.com/vimeo/psalm) ). I have been subscribed to the internals mailing list for few years now, and i think i can take on this role with the help of the veteran RM. Note: our company ( https://les-tilleuls.coop ) has agreed to sponsor my role as RM if selected, which would make this much easier for me. regards. - https://github.com/azjezz - https://twitter.com/azjezz - https://keybase.io/azjezz