> On Saturday 08 December 2012 23:57:35 Dion Moult wrote: > > 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. > The problem here is that nobody in the brainstorm section can know what "could > be implemented" without feedback from the developers. And I don't think it > makes any sense to just move the wishes from brainstorm to bko. Happened for > kwin a few times and actually it was always a "meh, that's too complex" or > "meh, that doesn't fit at all our design". Ending in that the proper response > would have been to directly close as WONTFIX. I cannot remember to have ever > gotten any user feedback that I implemented (either on bko or on brainstorm). > Also I do not accept that a few users voting for a feature represent the > opinion of the user base. > > So my suggestion would be to get the developers' feedback into brainstorm to > figure out what the developers think about it. Let them tell the users what > they think about it. I think it's more honest to say that "this would require > at least a person month of work, so don't expect it ever to happen" then to > give users the feeling that they are ignored. > > Another general problem is that developers probably have their own agenda and > have their own ideas on how to take the software further. Personally I doubt > that anyone is waiting for users to come up with new ideas. So I see user > suggested features at max as something for new developers.
It probably depends on the type of project as to whether users' ideas are useful, but for KAlarm I've implemented quite a number of feature suggestions from users. So I don't think you can generalise your own experience in suggesting that user ideas are very unlikely to be useful. -- David Jarvie. KDE developer. KAlarm author - http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
