Hi, 2012/12/8 Dion Moult: > Hello all, > > On occasion (less actively nowadays) I prune the KDE brainstorm section. For > those who don't know, the KDE forums have a section called Brainstorm, where > the users can submit ideas and vote on them.
first of all, thanks for your work! I think that the brainstorm section of the forums is a very useful tool for the discussion of possible new features. > One of the things I rarely get to do is move submitted ideas into the "In > progress" or "Done" sections. This makes me feel that developers simply aren't > looking at the Brainstorm and essentially, users are ignored through this > medium. > > As I care very much about the success of the brainstorm and that users > actually see that they are being acted upon, and since I have been moderating > the section for a long time (I've somewhat become a walking search tool for > duplicate ideas!), I want to try and make it work better. > > Because I cannot force developers to try and integrate it into their workflow > if they haven't already, here is my proposal: > > If you are the lead developer on a certain section of KDE, such as plasma, > activites, kontact, etc, please send me an appropriate way to contact you. I think that unless any maintainer tells you something else, ideas from KDE brainstorm that are discussed in the forum and considered useful should be reported as wishlist items at bugs.kde.org. > Every so often, I will pick the users top choices that seem plausible and will > bring them to _you_, and discuss how to evolve the idea into something that > could be implemented. Then we can open up an enhancement bug report in BKO, > and start getting some brainstorm ideas along the Submitted->In progress->Done > chain. Of course it would be nice to see more ideas in the 'Done' section. But please note that discussing ideas in the forum and then reporting them at bugs.kde.org is by no means a guarantee that the idea will really be implemented, even if everyone (including the maintainer) agrees that the idea is good. Writing the code, testing it and merging it into master usually takes a considerable amount of time. If you only have a bit of spare time to work on KDE, and your inbox is always packed with mails from bugs.kde.org, then you cannot implement many ideas :-( Best regards, Frank >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
