#5902 - Allow credits that do not affect life-time points; rename life-time points
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By PDStig
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| Identifier | #5902 |
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| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Allow credits that do not affect life-time points; rename life-time points |
| Status | Completed |
| Tags |
Roadmap: v11 (custom) |
| Handling member | PDStig |
| Version | 11 beta4 |
| Addon | points |
| Description | This is a combo issue.
a) Add an option for staff to credit points to a member without it affecting their life-time points. This is ideal for awarding points to a member for, say, a donation, but the staff don't want it affecting their rank / voting power (especially if lots of points are given for donations). b) Add a new column in the points ledger which defines which records affect life-time points. Use that from now on instead of arbitrary logic / calculations. This will improve performance and will also allow the possibility of other things excluding life-time points in the future. c) Rename life-time points. I believe this was mentioned in another issue. "life-time points" is not accurate anymore because it is not truly a representation of points ever earned (e.g. warning points take life-time points away as a rank punishment). A more accurate term would be "rank points" because these points dictate what rank you're in and how much voting power you have (another form of "rank"). Previous suggestions of "Content points" and "activity points" should be disregarded; those are not accurate terms. |
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| Additional information | I especially want to do a for composr.app. My thinking is the following:
* We have the ability to sponsor issues using points. But some (arguably most) developers won't be satisfied with points alone and will want a financial backing. * We could implement the old support credits system but there isn't (and shouldn't be) a central company / individual behind Composr to where the payments would go. So this won't work. And project-central donations also won't work for the same reason. The best solution I can think of for now is for developers, on their own accord, to accept payment from members as part of a sponsorship for an issue. They would then give them points relative to their donation which do not affect their life-time / rank points (because we shouldn't allow members to buy their way through ranks or voting power). And then the member can put those points up on sponsorships. This may require re-thinking our custom fields in Mantis for sponsorships. |
| Funded? | No |
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This hotfix renames "life-time points" to "rank points". It also adds a new column on the ledger to dictate which records affect rank points. And it adds an option for staff to credit points to member balances without those points affecting their rank points.