Advanced Poll

Looks like there's been a request to use Advanced Poll on Groups.Drupal.Org:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/7534

If it happens it would be great visibility for the module and a huge population for generating bug reports and feature requests.

Hey guys, Anders and I are planning to do an official 1.0 release of Advanced Poll pretty soon. This will be a high quality version of Advanced Poll that has all major features working and is relatively bug free. It will also serve as the base for our Drupal 6 port of advpoll, which we will start working on after the first D6 Release Candidate, so it needs to be solid.

If there is anything in particular you want to argue for, or unreported bugs you've found, now is the time to speak up.

Hi all,

I'm a bit of a newbie, I'm trying to implement write-in votes, and I would love your thoughts. I've posted my plan at http://drupal.org/node/100496 - please reply there!

Thanks a lot,
J.D. Leonard

Here's what I would like to be accomplished over the next month:

1. Fix all bugs currently in the issue queue and implement all feature requests.
2. Better display/theming of configuration options in the poll display (e.g. duration, starting date, eligibility, etc.).
3. Views integration.
4. Default options per content-type.
5. jQuery magic for ranking votes.
6. Email capability for electoral list - option to send to all who are eligible, those who have voted, or those who haven't voted.
7. Actual releases for 5.0 and 4.7 branches.

It's also time for some progress evaluation from last month, when I had the following priorities for my work on Advanced Poll:

It's been five weeks since the last update and a ton of progress has been made on Advanced Poll:

• Ported to Drupal 5.0 - all new development is occuring on the 5.0 branch
• Dynamically add or remove poll choices
• PostgreSQL support (additional testing needed)
• Start dates for polls
• Submit votes using Ajax
• List polls at /polls
• Cache voting results
• Add/remove individual users from Electoral List and a button to clear it entirely
• Allow votes to be reset
• Numerous bug fixes

Demo available at http://advpoll.ck37.com and additional discussion can go in the Advanced Poll working group. Please submit all bug reports and feature requests to the issue queue.

In the five weeks since the last update several features have been added to Advanced Poll module, and we are also working to improve usability and overall code quality.

New features include:

• Borda Count
• Electoral list tab
• View votes tab
• Cancellable votes

The module is undergoing rapid development so bug reports and feature requests are much appreciated.

The Advanced Poll module now supports approval voting in CVS. Approval voting is implemented by adding a "maximum choices" option for each poll. If it is set to one the poll behaves as usual and users can only vote for one option. If it is set to something else (something greater than one, or 0 for no limit) users may check off the choices that they approve of, up to whatever "maximum choices" is set to. For example, if maximum choices is set to "2" users may vote for their top two choices in a given poll.

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