Re: [RFC] [VOTE]ValueError Conversions for PHP 8.6

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