Re: Wish list, Poll & Form

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Harold,

Frankly, so did Corinna's poll... ;-)
You are correct in that a pure anonymous poll will do no good.  But a poll
that lets people explain their votes in an attached forum (which is what I
think Biju is suggesting) would.  This is where the design discussion
would happen.  In fact, a more interesting type of poll (and no, I'm not
volunteering to set it up :-D) would be where the voters have an option of
adding extra choices to the initial list.  If nothing else, it would be a
cool social experiment.
	Igor

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Biju,
>
> That might help for a related problem.  But I am looking for users to do
> a little more of the design work before I start coding a requested
> feature.  That wouldn't really be helped by a poll, as it requires one
> individual to do some careful thinking, not a community concensus.
>
> Thanks for the idea though,
>
> Harold
>
> Biju G C wrote:
> > --- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>There is nothing I hate more than spending an hour making a
> >>release only to have someone say, "oh yeah, but wouldn't it
> >>be more natural for it to do foo and bar instead of the way
> >>you coded it?".  Sure, it might be more natural,
> >>but I want people to start asking me that before I make
> >>the release, not after I make the release.  :)
> >>Randall, you can be my first test case of me demanding more
> >>information before coding :)
> >>
> >>Harold
> >
> >
> > If v hav a forum, where users can add/submit feature request
> > (A Wish list) and other can vote on it.
> > That will be a good guidence to developers.
> >
> > I dont think it will be difficult. As phpBB and all have it.
> >
> > NB: Not the way "Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?"
> >     was done it will flood the archives, and seaching old mails
> >     difficult. In this case my opinion would be an offlist reply
> >     to Corinna Vinschen is better.
> >
> > cheers
> > biju
> >
> > Example at MozillaZine, to create poll
> > http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/posting.php?mode=newtopic&f=22

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