If voting for bugs is undesirable (why???), you should also remove the
"My votes" link in the page footer.

Well, Louie?

here is a hack...

Index: CGI.pl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/bugzilla/CGI.pl,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 CGI.pl
--- CGI.pl	12 Jun 2001 16:56:35 -0000	1.7
+++ CGI.pl	8 Jun 2002 06:17:28 -0000
@@ -947,7 +947,8 @@
         if (!defined $::anyvotesallowed) {
             GetVersionTable();
         }
-        if ($::anyvotesallowed) {
+
# FIXME HACK: We don't want them to see the votes option.
+        if (FALSE && $::anyvotesallowed) {
             $html .= qq{ | <A HREF="showvotes.cgi"><NOBR>My
votes</NOBR></A>};
         }


I know we want to keep our bugzilla from forking any further, but this
is a non-essential change. eg: it's nice now, but it won't matter if
we lose it when we upgrade bugzilla.

It is really odd that this should still be present... I'd think that
this indicates that somewhere we've still got voting on :) But yeah,
I've got no objection to this going in- like you say, it doesn't
really affect the upgrade process at all, so... go for it, I guess, Wayne.

Did this ever get commited ?

There's also the Voter column under Preferences/Email Settings.

Is there any reason to care about this at all?

The majority of products in bugzilla have voting disabled (maxvotes=0), so the
bug pages don't mention voting.  For the few products that have enabled voting,
the vote UI is shown.

The remaining mentions of voting seem pretty harmless.  Does the ability for
Gimp users to vote on Gimp bugs impact GTK bugs at all?

For reference, the following products have voting enabled:
  balsa
  galeon
  GIMP
  gnome-db
  gnome-vfs
  gtranslator
  libgda
  totem (voting for this one was turned on as a joke though)

If it is only visible in those products, that's fine. Marking FIXED, unless
someone has an example of it showing up anywhere it shouldn't in the current
installation.