[RFC] [VOTE]ValueError Conversions for PHP 8.6

Thank you for your feedback.

I have added an "Abstain" option as well.

Bukka also shared a suggestion regarding this RFC.
Please check the latest message here:
https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/20971#issuecomment-3923902448

Hi

Am 2026-03-03 09:37, schrieb Muhammed Arshid KV:

This is to announce the opening of the vote for the ValueError
Conversions
RFC.

RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php86_valueerror_conversions
Discussion thread: https://externals.io/message/130090

The vote will be open for 2 weeks (and a few hours), closing on March
17th
at midnight UTC.

There are no voting options available in the RFC for reasons that are
unclear to me. Looking at the page’s source code I don't see an obvious
mistake with regard to the markup for the voting doodle.

I'm however noting that the options do not include the “Abstain” option
that is required per our policy:

https://github.com/php/policies/blob/main/feature-proposals.rst#required-majority

I am also unable to find an “Intent to Vote” announcement for this RFC
in the mailing list archives and the corresponding discussion thread is
only 12 days old as of now (which is less than the cooldown period of 14
days after the initial proposal). As such the start of the vote is
violating our current policy in multiple points.

I also don't think that this RFC has properly been discussed and I don't
feel it is productive to individually vote on every case of properly
validating input parameters. This warrants a generic decision, such as
the one proposed by Gina in her “Exempt input type and value validation
from BC Break policy” RFC: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130221

Given the clear policy violation regarding the vote, I request the vote
be canceled. I would also recommend to withdraw the RFC in favor of
Gina’s - but that is your decision as the RFC author of course.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus

Hi

Am 2026-03-03 09:37, schrieb Muhammed Arshid KV:

This is to announce the opening of the vote for the ValueError
Conversions
RFC.

RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php86_valueerror_conversions
Discussion thread: https://externals.io/message/130090

The vote will be open for 2 weeks (and a few hours), closing on March
17th
at midnight UTC.

There are no voting options available in the RFC for reasons that are
unclear to me. Looking at the page’s source code I don't see an obvious
mistake with regard to the markup for the voting doodle.

I'm however noting that the options do not include the “Abstain” option
that is required per our policy:

https://github.com/php/policies/blob/main/feature-proposals.rst#required-majority

I am also unable to find an “Intent to Vote” announcement for this RFC
in the mailing list archives and the corresponding discussion thread is
only 12 days old as of now (which is less than the cooldown period of 14
days after the initial proposal). As such the start of the vote is
violating our current policy in multiple points.

I also don't think that this RFC has properly been discussed and I don't
feel it is productive to individually vote on every case of properly
validating input parameters. This warrants a generic decision, such as
the one proposed by Gina in her “Exempt input type and value validation
from BC Break policy” RFC: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130221

Given the clear policy violation regarding the vote, I request the vote
be canceled. I would also recommend to withdraw the RFC in favor of
Gina’s - but that is your decision as the RFC author of course.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus