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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Developers and KDE Brainstorm
From:       Dion Moult <dion () thinkmoult ! com>
Date:       2012-12-08 12:57:35
Message-ID: 1579714.RvpbaoMZ2V () moult
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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.

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.

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.

Here are the highlights:
 - No need to change your workflow or spend time triaging yet another area. 
I'll do that for you, and filter only the ideas related to what you work on.
 - I'll keep some stats so that we can prove that users aren't being ignored.
 - Whether it's a new feature or fix a series of papercuts that users are 
visibly talking about, you'll never run out of things to hack on during that 
lazy Sunday afternoon!
 - Less thinking for implementation, many ideas come up detailed descriptions 
on how to be implemented, including mockups, design details, and use cases.

Please tell me what you think,

P.S. I am not subscribed to kde-devel, so you will need to CC me on this 
conversation.

-- 
Dion Moult

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