On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:54 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:
That's an easy fix. Any time an issue is marked closed by cron, clear all votes on that issue. Then you get them back to reallocate elsewhere.
We decided not to do it that way for a few reasons: a) If an issue was accidentally or prematurely marked 'closed', you'd lose all the vote data. Granted, the 2-week cron closer would rule out the accidental ones, so I guess it's less of a concern if you do it via cron. However, what about issues marked "duplicate", "won't fix", etc? If people aren't used to reclaiming their votes, then people will probably forget about votes "lost" to these other states... b) Dries said it would be a sense of accomplishment to visit the "issues you voted on" page, see stuff that was fixed/closed, and reclaim your votes.
It is probably possible (although probably annoying to do in project* D5) to also provide a page where you can see all of the votes you've cast on what issues and provide an easy way for you to modify them.
It already does this. Currently hard-coded and somewhat ugly: http://project.drupal.org/user/46549/project-issue-votes Easily converted into a view if someone was motivated to spend time on it: http://drupal.org/node/328689 Cheers, -Derek (dww)