Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE]

On Jul 27, 2026, at 7:31=E2=80=AFAM, Gina P. Banyard <[email protected]> =
wrote:
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> Hello internals,
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> As announced last week I've opened the vote for the 8.6 mass =
deprecation RFC:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6
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> The vote runs for two weeks and will close automatically on the 10th =
of August 2026 at 13:00:00 UTC.=20
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> Please remember that the wiki is only capable to handle a single vote =
at a time,
> so each vote MUST be submitted individually.
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> Best regards,
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> Gina P. Banyard

Nora isn't on the list, but she points out:

The text for the metaphone deprecation isn't fully right. It lists
"linguistics" as a replacement package, but that one actually uses
php-src's metaphone internally too. So it is affected by the
deprecation, not a replacement.

As demonstrated by:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
\Linguistics\Phonetics::metaphone('foo');