-----Original Message----- From: Derek Wright Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:24 PM
The best system possible is one that people can actually use. ;) Far too many threads about improving d.o in some way die at exactly this stage -- endless discussion, no action. In this case, there's already code that exists, was written by members of the security team, works, and is ready to deploy. If we go back to the drawing board now for another few months of speculation and bike-shedding about "the best system possible", I'll bet $20 that the code never materializes and none of it, even the stuff that already works, will be used.
I'm not trying to be defeatist or stifle anyone's initiative, but in this case, I think it's time to invoke one of Drupal's oldest mantras: "Talk is silver, code is gold". Or something along the lines of "let not perfection be the barrier of progress" (or however that goes).
Not necessarily true either: http://drupal.org/project/flag Flag would also open up the possibility to use other flags for different purposes in the future. Think handbook pages, flagging comments for moderation, etc. It comes with decent Views integration, and is already available for 6.x, too. Lastly, if you really want to weigh flags like votes: http://drupal.org/project/flag_weights It is possible that a separate glue module might be required to integrate Flag with project* the same way like Project Issue Voting does. However, I'd be up for coding this simple helper, if required. Daniel