Erik Sandberg wrote:
On Monday 24 May 2004 19.48, Pedro Kroger wrote:
Hi,
Since the bugs reports are being organized now, do you think that the request for features should also be organized? It doesn't have to be anything fancy, a plain list would do.
I doubt that there would be a need for this. The coders know what they want to do (see http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/workbook/TODO), and feature requests are mostly replied with something like "yes, that's a good idea, you are welcome to implement it". Would anyone have any use for a list of feature requests?
I definitely support the idea of a feature request list. Having a list on paper should make it easier to prioritize and it may also happen that when you see the full list, you find out that one change in the code could solve a number of these requests, even though each one in separate doesn't feel urgent enough to motivate the effort. Also, feature requests often turn up hidden in questions or comments to lilypond-user (I sometimes forward these to bug-lilypond or lilypond-devel so they get noticed).
On the other hand, the advantage of not having a feature request list easily accessible on the WWW is that popular feature requests will be repeated multiple times on the mailing lists, whereas if users see that the request already is listed, they don't repeat it. So, not having a list may be a way to get a kind of voting mechanism. (Sorry to contradict myself).
/Mats
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