Re: list of feature requests

[Mats Bengtsson]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Monday 24 May 2004 19.48, Pedro Kroger wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since the bugs reports are being organized now, do you think that the
> > request for features should also be organized? It doesn't have to be
> > anything fancy, a plain list would do.
>
>
> I doubt that there would be a need for this. The coders know what they want to 
> do (see http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/workbook/TODO), and 
> feature requests are mostly replied with something like "yes, that's a good 
> idea, you are welcome to implement it". Would anyone have any use for a list 
> of feature requests?

I definitely support the idea of a feature request list.
Having a list on paper should make it easier to prioritize
and it may also happen that when you see the full list, you
find out that one change in the code could solve a number of
these requests, even though each one in separate doesn't feel
urgent enough to motivate the effort. Also, feature requests
often turn up hidden in questions or comments to lilypond-user
(I sometimes forward these to bug-lilypond or lilypond-devel
so they get noticed).

On the other hand, the advantage of not having a feature request
list easily accessible on the WWW is that popular feature requests
will be repeated multiple times on the mailing lists, whereas if
users see that the request already is listed, they don't repeat it.
So, not having a list may be a way to get a kind of voting mechanism.
(Sorry to contradict myself).

  /Mats