idea: suggestion box

Justin M. Forbes jmforbes at linuxtx.org
Wed May 5 16:06:25 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:56:32AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings. 
> 
> I was thinking it might be a nice idea to have Fedora Engineering
> Services create for us a "Fedora Suggestion Box". 
> 
> This would be a way for people to anonymously submit suggestions or
> ideas to Fedora for consideration. It could either be a web based
> form/app (which would have the advantage of letting us use captchas or
> the like and also let us explain what sort of suggestions we want, one
> suggestion per submit, etc), or a email address (which would get a lot
> more spam, but be easier for folks), or I suppose both. 
> 
> We then have a group of folks look through the submissions and: 
> 
> - Drop obvious spam
> - Drop obvious things Fedora will never do (ship non free software,
>   mp3, legal changes, etc).
> - Drop things that don't have an actual suggestion in them.  
> - Send the rest to a list for interested parties in fedora (Board,
>   FESCo, SIGs, etc) to look at and consider. 
> 
> There would be no promise that a suggestion would be acted on or looked
> at, but I think we might end up getting some ideas here that would
> would not otherwise get (due to people not knowing where to suggest, or
> being afraid they will look foolish, or thinking that their views in
> other venues have been ignored). 
> 
> Of course we could also get a lot of things we can't act on or use. 
> 
> What do people think of this idea? 

While I am not totally against the idea, I do wonder why there is need for
anonymity.  Anyone wanting to anonymously suggest something could
accomplish the same thing by using a different email address, but why?
People should take credit for their suggestions, good or bad. 

Justin


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