Hey. I have already hided Daniel's poll with mine Community members are not very active, or not really interested in polls, or polls section is not visible enough.

2 months for a poll.. too long for me Maybe Community main page could rotate all active polls and show different one every time you browse to it.

As about voting. I'm not a developer, so i cant say whether it's really needed. I know why JIRA is closed for simple users and i some what agree with Jive point. It shouldnt be opened for everyone, or anyone who decides to write a plugin. I'm in doubts.

We are planning to give JIRA and svn access to a few more people.  We're doing this as part of a bigger effort to put some better bug reporting / patch submission processes in place so that we can get better organized around these contributions.  I'm working on figuring out the best way to do it.  I should have a doc with some ideas / recommendations for everyone to review sometime in the next week or so.