-1

I feel like we have a lot of mechanisms for feature requests already, as I stated in my answer (http://answers.ros.org/question/39224/can-we-use-this-system-for-feature-requests/).

I also don't know how I feel about the actual uservoice service, as it's fairly "cheap" to add feature requests.  I think that it would get flooded with requests, but I'm not sure that any would actually be filled.  I think that Trac and the planning SIGs are more engaging, as everybody has more buy-in to the idea at hand.

Additionally, I think that answers.ros.org is too cluttered already, and adding feature requests would make it unusable.

~mc

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Armin Hornung <HornungA@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
On 2012-07-19 08:34, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
* Mac Mason <mac@cs.duke.edu> [2012-07-18 23:26]:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:04 PM, David Lu!! <davidlu@wustl.edu> wrote:
Is there any interest in a uservoice-like suggestions page for the ROS
Community at large?
+1
-0 (I don't like having information cluttered along a lot of different
sites because I tend to forget checking them for updates, let alone
answering posts on them. Having one unified solution where you can
connect to in multiple ways (like mail or rss) would be great.)

I tend to agree with Jochen. I've always seen Uservoice as a solution for projects that don't have their own issue and feature request trackers running. As most stack maintainers already use trac or something similar for this purpose, it will create duplicate issues and work to check yet another site. It's already hard to keep up with bug reports being posted on ROS answers instead of proper tickets (mainly due to email notifications not working properly).

If the feature request can't be assigned to a single package or stack, I think that the mailing list would be fine to discuss these general requests.


Best,
Armin

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Contact: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~hornunga


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