by Séverin Terrier.
Hi Ken,
As explained in the comment posted explaining why it's been closed, there are several reasons, including "less than 30 votes", and it has 24 votes.
As far as i know, there is no number of votes which implies "it will be done". But the more, more chances...
Like you, if i can avoid hacking the code, i avoid. But when i don't have too many choices, and as i've never took enough time to go into Moodle's development, i sometimes include little hacks.
But i'm pretty sure that someone knowing well Moodle coding, with an admin page for a plugin would code it in less than an hour (or two)...
Séverin