Is there a community site where existing users can vote for new functionality in fedora?

[James Thornber]

Hi,

I have no idea if something like this exists or not tbh, so if it does
please point me in the right direction:) Whilst playing around with my
fedora workstation, most of it works out of the box, which is great,
however I come across certain issues which I think others must also be
experiencing.  They require sometimes a quick Google to find the answer,
and sometimes I have to go round the houses to figure stuff out.

I was wondering therefore if we have a website, where anyone can list an
idea, and others can vote on it.  The highest votes for ideas then get
built into fedora future releases.

This is about improving the functionality of fedora based on our existing
user-base.  Obviously only those with a fedora account should be able to
add requests, and vote.

Does this make sense please?

Thanks,

James

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 02:15:32PM +0100, James Thornber wrote:
> I was wondering therefore if we have a website, where anyone can list an
> idea, and others can vote on it.  The highest votes for ideas then get
> built into fedora future releases.

So, the general problem with this kind of thing is the second sentence:
get built _by whom_? For a phone app or something with a company behind
it, this can be a useful way to direct development resources. Fedora is
a volunteer project — no one can really tell anyone that they need to
do a certain thing.

What's more, Fedora is largely an integration project. If there's some
aspect of, say, LibreOffice, that you would like to be enhanced, there
isn't necessarily anyone in the Fedora Project who has the expertise to
help, even if it's a great idea.

So, while feedback like this might be interesting, it seems like it
will tend to lead to frustration and disappointment. Any system like
this would need to be very careful to set expectations carefully.