Closed Bug 65801 Opened 24 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Allow "pending" votes or weighted votes.

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(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement, P5)

enhancement

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: mozilla-bugs, Unassigned)

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Currently, once a bug is resolved, people who voted for it have to log in and transfer their votes to other bugs to avoid "waisting" their votes. I propose adding a category of "pending" votes - The pending vote would be counted as 0 votes, but as soon as some bug is resolved, its vote will be transfered to the next pending vote (in the same category, of course). Casting a "pending" vote can also be used to mark bugs that people consider important, but do not have enough votes for. This way you can come in later, go to the votes page and review your priorities, possibly replacing some pending votes with real ones and vice versa. Even better alternative would be to change the casting of votes from absolute (e.g. I give some specific number of votes for each bug) to relative. In this scheme, users would be able to assing to each bug an arbitrary "weight". At each point in time, each person's vote allotment for each section would be divided among all _unresolved_ bugs proportional to the assigned weights. For example, if I have 5 votes and I assign bug 1 - weight 7 bug 2 - weight 3 bug 3 - weight 3 and then bug 3 would get resolved, my votes will get automatically redistributed as 3.5 for bug 1 and 1.5 for bug 2. I believe this is a reasonable alternative to "whining about votes on resolved bugs - see bug #27553
I sometmies deliberately vote for bugs that are marked "invalid" or "wontfix", and I wouldn't want my votes shifted to other bugs automatically.
Also what to do if someone resolves and then it gets reopened. If your vote disappears you won't be notified of the reopening either.
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Solution to Jesse's concern: a pref to either shift votes for all resolved bugs, only shift votes for fixed bugs - or never shift votes. Solution to Matthew's concern: pref to turn ordinary votes back into pending votes for resolved/fixed/no bugs. Pending votes could still keep you on the email list.
Robin, might want to also include option to transfer when bug is closed. I've had to re-vote for one that was resolved fixed, then reopened. Now I wait for them to close to move votes... See also bug 92440 (Upstream Voting)
-> Bugzilla product
Assignee: tara → myk
Component: Bugzilla → Creating/Changing Bugs
Product: Webtools → Bugzilla
Version: other → unspecified
It would be good to have pending votes, but no automatic moving. If I wanted to vote for 13 bugs, I could then chose 10 of them and let the rest as pending, and chose another of the pending bugs when one of the 10 was fixed. IOW, the pending bugs list would be more of a reminder that I once wanted to vote for the bugs but didn't because I did not have enought votes.
I use a Saved Search called "Wishlist" to hold bugs i can't vote for yet. I suggest closing this bug in favor of bug 92440.
AFAIU bug 92440 is a different solution to a different problem. This one deals with "what happens when a bug I've voted for gets resolved". Bug 92440 deals with "what happens if a bug I'm voting for needs something else to get resolved first?". Assuming I've understood things correctly, closing one in favour of the other doesn't make sense.
QA Contact: mattyt-bugzilla → default-qa
Target Milestone: Future → ---
Assignee: myk → create-and-change
Priority: -- → P5
We are not going to implement a user pref for this ("should we remove votes on resolved bugs?") nor alter the DB schema for such a minor benefit. If the vote limit is a problem, ask the admin to increase it. But this RFE doesn't worth the code complexity.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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