Ability to vote for a ticket

[anonymous]

The ability to vote for a ticket would be a great functionality, allowing users to vote for the ticket they would like to see resolved the most.

Additionally, if this is going to be implemented, it would be very nice to have the ability for the trac administrator to create different user category, and assign a given user to a given category.

This way, a developer voting for a certain ticket would have a "bigger" voice than a simple user, etc etc.

Thanks for this great software.

[anonymous]

Yes, indeed that would be a very nice feature, espechially for Open-Source projects.

[anonymous]

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[anonymous]

We've been using Trac as internal system for more than a year now. Recently we've decided to add ability for our users to submit bugs and improvement suggestions for our software. Trac seems like a nice choice but we would really like to have voting functionality. Is it in some near plans or it's not going to be implemented at all?

[mgood]

No, there are no plans for implementing this at the moment. I would prefer to close this ticket as wontfix. If someone wants to write a plugin for it then go ahead, but I don't see a reason to make this a core Trac feature.

I actually think that ticket voting is generally a bad idea and Havoc Pennington's comments on the Redhat mailing list do a good job of explaining why I feel that way.

[anonymous]

Well that's fine. Thanks for clarifying.

But I think that Havoc's argument is flawed. You are not required to fix the bug with the largest amount of votes, but it is still nice to have this feature if you believe it helps you see the real situation, which is the case in many cases when you don't get spammed, with spamming itself being mostly the problem of quite big projects.

[mrenzmann@…]

In case someone writes a plugin for this feature: it might be a good idea to restrict the voting option to admin-definable ticket types. This way votes could be allowed for enhancements only, for example, while voting for defects or tasks is not possible. This would give the benefits of the original idea without the downsides that have been outlined in Havoc's posting.

[mmihajlovic@…]

So, any takers on this? I would love this functionality, but am not a python developer.

[cboos]

Considering the ticket has been created 2 years ago, I think you have by large the time to learn Python before the ticket will implemented and closed ;)

More seriously, this is a candidate for a plugin, especially once the more flexible ticket WorkFlow infrastructure will be in place. As I don't think the vote feature will ever be part of Trac core, I'm closing this as wontfix.

Alternatevely, you can follow the recent renewal of interest in the redesign CC field topic (#1459). The number of people on the nosy/CC list of a ticket is a somewhat good measure of the popularity of a ticket.

[jm3@…]

i'm very interested in this feature. bugzilla has a nice implementation of it.

[eblot]

As cboos wrote, this feature would better be implemented as a plugin, see Trac Hacks and 'request-a-hack'.

[anonymous]

no takes on a plugin yet. just implement in a build please. shouldn't be very hard.

[henke.mike@…]

never mind found some @ track-hack.or called voteplugin and poolmacro voteplugin pollmacro