Feature #17288

Use Watcher Count as a poor man's Voting system on redmine.org

Added by @ go2null almost 6 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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Description

This request is to implement, with existing functionality, a simple Voting system for redmine.org by hacking/reusing/abusing the Watchers functionality.

In vanilla Redmine, there is a Watcher's section in the sidebar that has the Watcher count for the issue, in addition to listing all the Watchers. However, it is controlled by the View Watchers permission.

Watchers (2)
Jane Doe
John Doe

This proposal is to expose the Watcher Count.

Here are two possible implementations.
  1. Always display the Watchers (X) header.
  2. Add the Watcher Count to the Watch/Unwatch "button".
    1. This would be great to have on other objects such as Wiki pages, Forum messages, etc.

To make it available beyond redmine.org, displaying the Watcher Count could be controlled with a new permission - View watcher count.

PS: Not sure whether to categorize this under "Issues" as the idea applies to other Redmien objects, especially Plugins on redmine.org.

Related Features
Feature #1011 - Add voting to tickets
Feature #6945 - Add a voting system to help users help admins identify popular features/defects

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Feature #1011: Add voting to tickets New 2008-04-07
Related to Redmine - Feature #6945: Add a voting system to help users help admins identify po... New 2010-11-19

History

#1 Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 5 years ago

  • Category set to Website (redmine.org)

#2 Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 5 years ago

#3 Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 5 years ago

  • Related to Feature #6945: Add a voting system to help users help admins identify popular features/defects added

#4 Updated by @ go2null over 2 years ago

For issues, it would also be great if the Watcher Count could be added to the Issues list, thus allowing easy sorting.

#5 Updated by @ go2null over 2 years ago

See Redmine.org tickets vote count list(2019/12/22) which has a manually curated list, where this functionality would make such a list trivial.

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