[mythtv-users] Feature request page on wiki

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/23/2012 02:42 AM, Pieter De Wit wrote:
> On 23/01/2012 16:36, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 1/22/2012 19:50, Pieter De Wit wrote:
>>> Please don't take this in the wrong light, but who, from the dev team,
>>> looks at the "Feature Request" page on the wiki ?
>> You can always check the wiki edit history.  The simple fact is that
>> MythTV is written by unpaid volunteers, and unpaid volunteers are only
>> going to work on things that they have a personal use for, or otherwise
>> interest them.  Most have their own local TODO lists they want to get
>> done anyway.  Too many people thinking up ideas, and not enough actually
>> doing them, plus the complaint I've voiced in the past about a big long
>> list in a wiki not being easy to sift through.
> Ok - so how about relaxing the rules around feature requests on the bug
> tracker ?

I can't find the tickets I'm actually trying to work on/reference as 
originals for duplicate tickets/point out on list/... as it is.  The 
last thing we need is hundreds of new "tickets" for things that aren't 
even bugs.  Our bug tracker is our bug tracker and only that.  (And, 
really, even now, it either needs a good cleanup--like starting over--or 
some much better search capabilities.  It's gotten too large to be 
useful--which is why we're so adamant about discussion /not/ occurring 
on the bug database.)

>   Easier to manage ? I personally agree with you, imaging me
> trying to help.....no idea where to start. Perhaps the wiki can be used
> as a brain dump for the ideas in the bug tracker ?

I'd be OK with a completely separate tracker for feature 
requests--something like Ubuntu's Brainstorm or whatever--but I have 
enough stuff on my TODO list that I, for one, am very unlikely to ever 
spend any time browsing through it (just like I'm very unlikely to spend 
any time browsing through the wiki page).  That said, we're not likely 
to set up any new services (like Brainstorm) any time soon--since we 
still have to migrate a bunch of services back to our own server (they 
were moved away to allow an upgrade of the underlying distro).

Mike