Remove poll.module from core [#200427]

As evidenced by http://drupal.org/node/67895 it's clear no one uses or cares about poll.module. ;) For 1.5 years, every time you edit a poll, you lose all the votes. Either #67895 is critical and we shouldn't release (again) without such a horrible flaw, or we should just admit that poll is unloved and doesn't belong in core.

Furthermore, poll is the regression test for FAPI -- poll slows down a lot of new core development, every time HEAD is open for changes.

And let's not get started with all the limitations in poll's functionality (no ranked-choice voting, no body to explain the poll, etc, etc).

poll.module is a relic of a bygone era in Drupal's history. It doesn't belong in core anymore. It should be removed before we ship 6.0.

(If this get's marked "Won't fix", then #67895 is critical and an RC blocker...)

Thanks,
-Derek

Comments

Comment #1

Michelle

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CreditAttribution: Michelle commented 13 December 2007 at 03:13

Advanced poll is a fine contrib. +1 from me.

Michelle

Comment #2

litwol CreditAttribution: litwol commented 13 December 2007 at 03:14

i wholeheartedly support this idea. +1. i cant believe drupal 5 had such flawed module for over a year now and no one did anything about it. i think it just shows that this module is unwanted. to my belief if people want to create polls then they would use advanced poll module.

i vote for this module to be removed from core.

Comment #3

HedgeMage CreditAttribution: HedgeMage commented 13 December 2007 at 03:15

Susan

Comment #4

dww

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CreditAttribution: dww commented 13 December 2007 at 03:19

Just noticed the following on http://drupal.org/project/advpoll

Migration: convert regular Drupal polls into Advanced Polls.

So, it looks like the "but what about a migration path?" question is already solved....

Comment #5

moshe weitzman CreditAttribution: moshe weitzman commented 13 December 2007 at 03:30

+1 from me too. the fact that we have had a major data loss bug for 1.5 years indicates to me that hardly anyone cares about it. most people have moved over to adv poll or a votingapi module.

Comment #6

rickvug CreditAttribution: rickvug commented 13 December 2007 at 04:32

+1 - Poll module has suffered for very long. Hopefully dropping it will inspire a concerted effort around a "best of breed" simple poll module. It would be nice to have the core poll module adopted and improved, offering users a choice in their upgrade path (any volunteers to adopt?).

I haven't used Advanced Poll (it looks great!) but asking users to migrate to something with many features that they've never seen, and likely don't need, could be confusing. See http://drupal.org/node/162146 for one such issue. There's a place for different polling modules, all with their own niche (and hopefully little outright overlap in their target users).

That's my 2 cents.