[RFC] Moving Wishlist Items to Brainstorm

[Martin Graesslin]

On Saturday 25 May 2013 10:03:16 Luca Beltrame wrote:
> That said, voting etc might be useful to do some pre-screening on feature.
> Although votes are not a useful metric per se, my last experiment with
> scoring Brainstorm ideas put genuinely useful ideas at top.
For me the feature of down voting is the most important one as that 
automatically removes the stupid ideas. And out of experience: those are the 
most annoying ones. The users don't accept a "sorry, this doesn't make sense 
because a, b, c". They start to argue and that's binding time. Getting this to 
be downvoted by users helps solving the problem.
> 
> But keep in mind point 2 from above: if it's just a dumping ground, you'll
> get rid of a frustration to get another one in.
It doesn't have to be a dumping ground. If the voting and discussions work, 
the system should produce high quality ideas. Whether they get implemented is 
then a different question (c.f. shutdown of Ubuntu brainstorm). But if it 
really a good idea and not dream concert (e.g. Plasmoids in own processes) I 
don't see a reason why someone would not want to get a good idea into the 
product. And that could be crowed sourced ,too - doesn't have to be the main 
developers to implement ideas.
> 
> Also, if there is a plan on using Brainstorm as is, perhaps some pubicity
> might be needed (currently it's very low on the radar).
Yeah that could be a good idea to do it in the same step and e.g. announce on 
the dot that Plasma moves over to brainstorm for feature suggestions.

Cheers
Martin