[RFC] Moving Wishlist Items to Brainstorm

[Vishesh Handa]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>wrote:

> On Monday 27 May 2013 14:48:52 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On 27.05.2013 14:03, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > On Monday 27 May 2013 13:25:35 Mario Fux KDE ML wrote:
> > >> Do you plan as well to remove the option to send "bugs" with severity
> > >> "wishlist" on bugs.kde.org (and probably just leave it for some
> > >> brainstorm
> > >> moderators). Would be two steps less for "wishlist submitters" and the
> > >> above message just for the submitters who already sent their
> wishlists.
> > >
> > > We cannot do that (yet). This would be an overall change to the
> > > bugs.kde.org workflow. For smaller projects having the wishlist
> entries
> > > in bugzilla might be useful, so I doubt we would be able to get an
> > > overall change in bugs.kde.org.
> > On the other hand, consistency would be very useful here. It would get
> > quite confusing for users if they had to know for each project whether
> > it accepts wishlist items on bugzilla or on brainstorm.
> I don't think this matters at all. KWin uses this policy for at least a
> year
> and we have not had any complaint from users about it.
>
> Reality is that hardly any feature requests get created in the first
> place. We
> are talking here about 150 reports per year. So a maximum of 150 users can
> be
> confused by it.
> > If all of KDE
> > moved to brainstorm for wishes, we could just post on the Dot "From now
> > on, all feature requests for KDE projects will be handled on
> > brainstorm.forum.kde.org".
> This is clearly too early. We first need the infrastructure to handle it.
> As
> forum people have pointed out: if Plasma would start to use it, we will
> need
> more people moderating. I'm confident about this, but I am not for all of
> KDE.
> >
> > So why not start this discussion again on kde-devel and see what the
> > other projects think?
> I'm not going to start a bike-shed discussion :-)
>

On a slightly unrelated note, I'm planning to implement the same policy for
Nepomuk as well. In fact I think I'm going to go through all of the 50
reports in Nepomuk and use the template described.

As a developer, I never look at the feature requests. Also, most of them
are useless.


> Cheers
> Martin
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