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.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader