[sldev] Group voting is going to be removed?

[Soft]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Dale Glass <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As a part of getting development things going again, I fixed a bug with the
> group proposals history ( http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-12532 ),
> but some time later I found a post by Soft at the bottom of this bug:
> http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1146:
>
>> Soft Linden added a comment - 19/Jan/09 02:38 PM
>> Group voting won't exist anymore as of ~1.23 viewers.
>
> People I asked in-world didn't seem to be aware of this, and there was no
> other explanation, so I wanted to know: Why is this functionality being
> removed, and will anything replace it?

It's being removed because there are still a number of bugs (including
significant database load issues) in the voting system, however the
metrics team found that the feature is virtually unused. There is
little engineering work in removing group voting, while there would be
significant work in making the feature work and scale well.

There isn't any replacement built into the viewer. The functionality
could be reproduced with scripted objects or, where the voters are
trusted, a SurveyMonkey link in a group announcement.