[RFC] Moving Wishlist Items to Brainstorm

[Martin Graesslin]

On Saturday 25 May 2013 11:13:31 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> While I salute your idea I fear it will not work, as it needs Plasma
> people to actively work on Brainstorm, and that is already not the
> case on bugzilla. Moving the wishes elsewhere is just moving the
> problem elsewhere.
> 
> As long as the Plasma Team doesn't really, really do what they boost
> they do ( as in maintaining a codebase which implies also maintaining
> a bugs list like we do in Amarok and many other projects) and really
> look at the bugs list and work on the existing bugs that will simply
> not work.
feature requests are not bug reports! Whether Plasma devs look at bug reports 
or not is irrelevant on the question of feature requests. Saying for KWin: we 
did an awesome work on the bugs but did an awful work on the feature requests.

Feature requests is something we need the help of the users or anybody. It 
doesn't need devs to say that an idea is bad because it would be unusable. 
Anybody can do that. Brainstorm is suited for this, bugzilla isn't.

I think it's not the task of the developers to look on the feature 
requests[1]. That's something the userbase can and should do. If an idea gets 
approved through the brainstorm process, then it can be passed to the 
developers to have a look at for technically feasibility. This would be in 
most cases just a few minutes of work. If brainstorm would produce one request 
per month (that's highly optimistic) it would reduce the work load a lot.

Of course that can only work if users are willing to participate in brainstorm 
to do the voting and the selection of good reports. If that doesn't help we 
can just stop to think we need feature requests.

Cheers
Martin

[1] In the end it's also not the task of the developers to look at the bug 
reports. We developers are the third level support and are doing first level 
support tasks. Hilarious.