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A feature-request status page

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Motivation

I have the feeling (obviously biased ;) that some feature requests get forgotten over time. I absolutely do not claim that it is anyone's fault but that they naturally become less visible over time because they are less active (it's a guess).

Based on this assumption, the question is: how to improve/maintain the visibility of feature-request posts over time?

(Of course we can also consider that a non-active request means that nobody wants it... But is the feature-request enough visible to be active?)

Proposal

A "feature request status page" could be created on meta (maybe more like an article than a question: i.e. no possible answer) which list all feature-requests and give some info about them, for e.g.:

  • Status: pending, implemented, implemented (partially), rejected.
  • Vote counts (with the possibility of voting directly on this page EDIT after follow-up comment it seems better to avoid voting on the status page in order to encourage user to see/participate in the entire discussion before voting).
  • Link to the "announcement post" if implemented or the GitHub issue if pending (if relevant).

Here an example of what could be a feature-request list: example of what could be a feature-request list

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Potential problem with in page voting (2 comments)
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Potential problem with in page voting
trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago

I think I would rather that voting on a bug / feature request require visiting the specific page rather than being able to vote on the status page.

Voting on the status page would be voting on only the title, rather than on the full description, and would also skip viewing the answers and comments and the arguments they present. I would prefer to encourage people to visit the specific page and interact fully (commenting, answering, voting on both question and answers) rather than reduce voting to just the question (and just based on its title).

zetyty‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Yes indeed, thanks for this comment! I added an edit to the question.