Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Enhancements - Getting User Input

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen <
bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 08:18:17PM -0700, Joel Madero wrote:
> > We select 10-15 possible enhancements that can be completed in a
> > reasonably short period of time (within a minor release). We blog
> > about this (I can do this) with a simple poll. We then announce this
> > to the user list and make some PR announcement about "we are
> > listening to what you think!". Allowing this would limit the list to
> > enhancements that we agree can be done in a short period but open up
> > "which enhancement" to the wider community.
> >
> > My thought is we attempt this for our next release in 4.1
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Nope, at least not with PR or "we are listening to what you think!" up
> front.
> It needs to be the other way around: If you find a set of enhancements that
> seem to be valueable to users, the primary goals needs to be to sell those
> ideas to developers. Before a developer is commited to a task, there
> should not
> be any PR about it. And if its a volunteer, there should not be any PR
> about it
> before the task is _finished_. Everything else will end in tears.
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern
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Also we don't need a new system for the voting, we already have the
bugzilla.