A PainMeter is a way of measuring the pain a bug, missing feature, or other thingy causes to TWiki people, be they developers, adminstrators or end users.

The pain is increased by user votes; the more people who vote, the greater the pain is.

This is a democratic concept, so it's one person, one vote. If someone finds something really painful, they can vote again, and again, and again, and again....

-- CrawfordCurrie - 13 Sep 2004

Nicely colored voting widget, power of the CommentPlugin

May be I miss something but what are we measuring here? And what does it propose? What should be improved? Just trying to understand what we would like to get out of this vote.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Sep 2004

See DesireMeter. The CupIsHalfFull approach is better than the CupIsHalfEmpty.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 26 Sep 2004

depends... if you want to measure the impact of a bug surely pain has valid semantics?

-- MartinCleaver - 01 Oct 2004