Popularity was the intention of the vote

On 1 April 2016 at 16:32, Marc-Antoine Thevenet notifications@github.com
wrote:

Bonjour,
Today, someone began to communicate about a new feature request on the
issue tracker, asking people to vote for his request via the "Voting
feature". To his point of view, more votes would imply the request will be
more taken into account.
IMHO, we should answer the question with more precisions: does the voting
feature is a popularity feature or one in relation with the priority (see
https://docs.joomla.org/Bug_and_Issue_Tracker_Priority) ?

Anyway, I think we should explain it a bit more because it seems unclear
for many. Perhaps a tooltips would be sufficient.
Thoughts?

Thanks

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Brian Teeman
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It was designed pretty much as a copy of PHP's own voting mechanism on their tracker (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71941). Honestly I'm not sure if anyone even does anything with the data.

It's not designed to replace the issue priority field. It's basically a way for users to an issue with a score (1-5, low to high) of how important (important being whatever the user defines it to be).

Ok then let's say that the first question is solved: it's a popularity vote!

then now, this doesn't fix the way that some understand it as Popularity and other as Priority then I would say, this is not clear enough explained.

Also, if it is concidered as a Popularity vote then what.... what to do with? Does mods have permissions to check this "popularity"? are there differences in treatment on the basis of this popularity?
TBH I'm a bit lost about this, but maybe it's just me ;)

It's seriously just a popularity vote, nothing more, nothing less. If someone votes on an issue, total (aggregate) data is displayed for everyone to view, see https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/9687 as an example.