RE: RFC brainstorming

[Florian Ludwig <dino phidev org>]

> > I think you're assuming that developers would follow a brainstorm
> > site. Don't want to be negative, but I don't believe that would
> > always be the case. If such a site would be available, it should be 
> > made very clear that it is nothing more than an indication for 
> > developers.
Agree.

I don't think every developer will follow this, especailly discussions
about ideas could get pretty long [0] and reading them might take longer
than implementing the idea itself. There is a need for really strong
guidelines and moderators. If you got topic like  "linux is NOT user
friendly enough" or "better music player" you don't win anything.... 

Maybe a list what will not be implemented and what kind of request are
useless to fill anyway also should be made.


> This is clear. And the results of the brain storming could be include
> in a launchpad or wiki to develop the ideas.
I think it should be integrated with the roadmaps of the gnome projects
so users can see what is actually planed to be implemented and when -
while for the developer easing the maintaince of project roadmaps[0]
(those pages are a mess right now)



Some more brainstorming about this...
- rate / group / tag comments feature so developers can faster find what
  they are interested in (thinking of slashdot)
- force the user to search for similar ideas before creating a new one
- integrate bugzilla but clearly say discussion there should be focused
  on implementation / developer talk

Florian


[0] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/94/
[1]
http://live.gnome.org/Home?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=roadmap&titlesearch=Titles