[Clipart] ROADMAP towards Milestone 6!!! + RFE

[Alan Horkan]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:

> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:22:16 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.com>
> To: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> Cc: clipart-list <clipart at freedesktop.org>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] ROADMAP towards Milestone 6!!! + RFE
>
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've just been updating the roadmap for this upcoming release. Remember
> > we soft-decided to release monthly. Well, we are moving towards the end
> > of the month and we need folks to sign up for task in helping to
> > accomplish goals. Please visit here to see:
> >
> > http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap

we need to exclude the files of dubious legality, I think we have really
no choice but to consider it a release blocker particularly if we are
going to encourage distributions to start including us.

> > Also, how should we track RFE (Feature Requests)? The mantis bug tracker
> > is for bugs. Should we just have a page on the wiki for NEW FEATURE
> > REQUESTS? If so, I will add to the site menu and we can move forward.

> I was thinking we'd use mantis for feature requests too.  The one issue
> is having to require people to sign up for an account, but maybe that's
> not a big deal?  (It gives us a way to contact the user.)  Perhaps
> someone could create a wrapper that presents a simple feature request
> form to the user, and sends it to mantis via the anonymous account?

I find it really annoying how sourceforge seperates out feature requests.
I am glad you are not going to be doing so in this case.

Chances are people will mail this list with their "ideas" not necessarily
thinking of them as requests (seems to be how it works with every other
project).

We should politely request they file a report so that we do not forget the
suggestion.  If they do not file within a day or two and if the idea is
really good ideally one of us would take the initiative and remind them
and or file the idea ourselves.

A Wiki page for requests is not a bad idea so long as it is regularly
cleared out and good ideas moved to the bug tracker where someone takes
responsibility for them.  It is labour intensive and wont scale well and I
would much rather encourage people to use the bug tracker but if you are
willing to do it then it will work.

I think that it is actually a good idea to keep the minimum barrier that
some one needs to at least be willing to put their name to a suggestion.
So often with projects there are completely unintelligable bug reports
(due to langauge barriers, or just descriptoisn are just too short and
other issues).  If an idea is good then one of us should be willing to put
our name to it.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/