todo:php71

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Preparation Tasks
Timetable
Release Managers
Release Managers Vote

Preparation Tasks

triage bugs.php.net for suitable patches (ongoing)
triage pull requests on github (ongoing)

Timetable

Based upon PHP 7.0 release schedule

Tag on Tuesday, Release on Thursday
6 months pre-release phase

Date	Release
Jun 09 2016	Alpha 1
Jun 23 2016	Alpha 2
Jul 07 2016	Alpha 3
Jul 21 2016	Beta 1
Aug 04 2016	Beta 2
Aug 18 2016	Beta 3
Sep 01 2016	RC 1
Sep 15 2016	RC 2
Sep 29 2016	RC 3
Oct 13 2016	RC 4
Oct 27 2016	RC 5
Nov 10 2016	RC 6
Dec 1 2016	GA

Release Managers

7.1 RMs:

Davey Shafik (davey@php.net)
Joe Watkins (krakjoe@php.net)

Mentored by Anatol.

Release Managers Vote

php71rms
Real name	Davey && Joe	Davey && Anatol	Joe && Anatol
ab
bwoebi
cmb
daverandom
derick
francois
guilhermeblanco
jpauli
leigh
mike
nikic
ocramius
pajoye
pasindu
peehaa
salathe
sixd
tpunt
zeev
Final result:	14	0	5
This poll has been closed.

The vote started on 2016-04-26 and ended on 2016-05-03 (both at 6pm).