On 3/30/2017 9:33 AM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote:
I have no idea as I can't get into the requirements area any longer. Perhaps
because I haven't been to a SHARE for several years. What I do know is that
both of these requirements are now over 100 votes and growing.
The SHARE Requirements System can be found here:
http://www.share.org/page/requirements-&-advocacy
Many RFEs are essentially nonsense, entered by random individuals
without the benefit of real discussion or IBM input. And, RFE "votes"
don't carry as much weight as you might think because:
1. They are not votes at all. There is only LIKE or abstain. There is no
negative voting and no scoring. (Even Facebook can do dislikes now.)
2. RFEs with too many votes are met with great skepticism. Dozens of
LIKEs are too often attributed to a single customer with many employees.
Development attempts to count them as a single vote only.
3. There is no non-SHARE way of ranking RFEs to help IBM understand
customer priorities. RFE LIKEs are not very meaningful and the more time
that elapses since an RFE was opened, the more skeptical development
becomes about its importance relative to RFEs more recently authored,
even if it continues to accumulate LIKEs.
SHARE requirements are also RFEs, but they are vetted by the
Requirements Committee, discussed by the members, receive scored votes
(with negative voting allowed), and receive periodic ranking by the
membership. IBM takes them much, much more seriously than
run-of-the-mill RFEs. Periodic ranking provides IBM development with a
top-down (1, 2, 3, ...) list of enhancements customers say they _really_
need based on current real-world priorities. That is the list IBM
development works from. Just ask them.
Of course, if development finds themselves working on something where
there just happens to be an easy-to-implement non-SHARE RFE in the same
area of the code, it might get done too. But, it's a crap shoot.
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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