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Improved sponsor participation explanation
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Phil Sturgeon committed Jun 21, 2013
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a new fork of the official PHP-FIG ["fig-standards" repo][repo] should be created.

The content of this Pre-Draft PSR should be placed inside the `/proposed` folder with a simple filename.
A nickname like "autoload.md" should suffice, and markdown formatting must be used. No number is assigned to the PSR at this point.
A nickname like "autoload.md" should suffice, and markdown formatting must be used. No number is assigned
to the PSR at this point.

Along with this PSR file (Eg: "autoload.md") must be a meta document with a suffix of `-meta` before the
extension (Eg: "autoload-meta.md").
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### Author(s) and Sponsors

Each PSR must contain author(s) and sponsors names listed in the document body. These can be changed if
people swap out, but a PSR can never progress unless there are two co-sponsors actively backing the PSR.

This does not need to be policed, if a vote is initiated with the name of a sponsor on the document,
that sponsor will have plenty of time to raise their concern. In these instances a vote would be invalidated
and a new sponsor must be found before it can be voted upon again - sticking to the two-week wait on votes
which is the case for any and all votes, as specified in the Voting Protocol.
Each PSR must contain author(s) and sponsors names listed in the document body. In the event that an author would
like to step down from their position mid-way then the a named author must listing the new author in the meta
document. Sponsors can also quit and have their names moved from the Sponsor section to the Contributor section.
A PSR can never progress unless there are two co-sponsors actively backing the PSR.

This does not need to be policed, if a vote is initiated with the name of an ex-sponsor (or a sponsor who does not
consider themselves active) on the document, that person will have a reasonable window of time to raise their
concern. In the instance that a vote is underway with a sponsor who does not consider themselves active (i.e they
have quit or been listed without permission) then they cans imply raise this on the mailing list and the vote
would be invalidated until a new sponsor has been put in place. This would need a two-week wait since the last vote
before it can be voted upon again - sticking to the two-week wait on votes which is the case for any and all votes,
as specified in the Voting Protocol.

### Contributors

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