Re: Managing the community information stream

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:36:55AM -0500, Jim Nasby wrote:
>
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>> Instead, if all feature requests are tracked then users can vote on  
>> what's most important to them.
>>     
>
> I am sympathetic to the issues you and Andrew are describing (I
> understand Bruce's stream analogy, but I think Andrew is right that
> from the user's point of view, it's not usable).  But I am not
> convinced that users voting on desired features will get us the
> users' desired features.  The features we get are mostly the features
> that have attracted developers.  The method by which that attraction
> happens is interesting, but I don't think it's democratic.
>
>
>   

Getting votes might provide a useful point of information, not a way of 
making decisions, though.

I certainly don't regard it as a must-have feature.

cheers

andrew