Shouldn't be able to create a poll with a date in the past

[Dafydd Harries]

Steps:

1. go to https://launchpad.net/people/launchpad
2. click "Show Polls"
3. click "Set up a new poll"
4. create a new poll with a date of today or earlier
5. voilà, a poll with no options that you can't modify because it's already open

In order to create a useful poll, it seems it needs an opening date of tomorrow or later, which means that when I create a poll, I have to wait up to 24 hours before people can vote on it.

The poll code should not allow a poll to open if it has less than two options. Perhaps the poll should be in a "new" state until the creator explicitly confirms that it should be in the "open" state. This confirmation should be rejected if the poll has less than two options.

[Bruno Bord (brunobord)]

same here, with this poll

https://launchpad.net/~xamango-dev/+poll/xamango-wiki/+edit

You can't edit it, nor delete it.
I'd say that LP could allow a user to edit / delete a poll while no-one has voted on. As soon as someone cast a vote, it should be disabled.

[Morgan Collett (morgan)]

Some sort of date-choosing widget would be handy as there's no obvious way to know the required date/time entry format.

The fact that the poll can't be edited or deleted, or options added after the start date is reached, means that I've created a junk poll with no way to remove it.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

A better date-choosing control is bug 2455.

[Brian Rogers (brog45)]

I too have just encountered this problem.

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dallas/+poll/meetings-20080621

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

mainline r7162