[sldev] Group voting is going to be removed?

[Soft]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thomas Grimshaw <tom at streamsense.net> wrote:
> Soft wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> If it's unused then it's not going to cause any load, is it?  This seems
> pretty typical backwards thinking, to be honest...

There are queries such as checking each group for active proposals
that, as currently implemented, create load even if the feature isn't
used. It's like 80,000 systems hanging off a mailserver. Even if no
mail is being sent, that server isn't idle.