• Elect managers
• Triage GitHub issues for PHP 8.6
• Triage GitHub pull requests
• Push appropriate RFC at appropriate time

Based upon a target GA in late November. Individual releases may be added or removed to accommodate development progress.

• Tag on Tuesday, release on Thursday
• 5 months pre-release phase

• Veteran: Daniel Scherzer
• Rookie: Matteo Beccati
• Rookie: Joe Ferguson

This list only contains individuals who have formally and publicly volunteered via the internals mailing list.

Veteran volunteer(s) listed in the order in which they formally volunteered:

• Daniel Scherzer
• Sara Golemon (retracted)

Rookie candidates listed in the order in which they formally volunteered:

• Joe Ferguson
• Jordi Kroon
• Paul Dragoonis
• Matteo Beccati
• Aggelos Bellos
• Pierre Tondereau
• Patrick Martin

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