Ben Ramsey has opened discussion on a PHP RFC proposing a formal policy for working groups within the PHP project. The RFC establishes a framework for creating, operating, and dissolving chartered, time-bound working groups that can act with operational autonomy on non-language tasks (e.g., infrastructure, marketing) without requiring an RFC for every decision. Larry Garfield supports the proposal, arguing it standardizes boilerplate governance. Tim Düsterhus questions the added value, suggesting the existing RFC process already handles this and that a formal policy may reduce flexibility. The debate centers on whether a meta-policy for working groups is necessary or redundant given that individual working groups can already be proposed via RFCs.
