In several issues started a discussion how to prevent that a PSR will vote up on to an official PCS. Afterwards we need some reference implementations to consolidate this PCS as standard.

I think we should define a longer process to reach this goal. I will share you my opinion about this process in the next lines.

At the beginning someone suggest a RFC about some standard definition for the PHP community. Afterwards the discussion which is driven by the community starts and together we try to find out if this standard would make sense and optimize it.

Then we should start an official voting period where each PHP community member can vote up or down this RFC. After the official voting period a PSR is considered successful if 2/3 of all votes are positive and it would become an Interim PCS. Then we should define a trial period for example from 3 up to 6 months where a PCS can be established by used in reference implementations.

At the end of the trial time this PCS should be implemented in X (We need to define this value) reference implementations.

And then....we have a new PHP Community Standard

Suggestions? Comments? Feel free :)