Feature Request for Feature Requests!

[Frog29]

Looking at the current todo list, and the high volume of requests in
this forum (and number of duplicates that exist), there seem to be
quite a few problems.

1. There is no way to tell how many people want a single new feature.
People are asked (correctly) to not repost requests. This however
means that there is no clear indication how many people want features

2. There is a giant list of todo items, but as far as I can tell there
is no clear ordering.
This leads to a situation where there could be some really easy things
that a lot of people want, but other harder features get worked on
first. Thus the maximum utility is not achieved.

3. Discussions occur for different problems, but there is one feature
that will solve many problems in one.
There is no one place to discuss a new feature, this causes excess
discussion about features.

However, there is a solution!

There are some really useful feature request management systems (that
can be free) that help with these problems.
They allow feature requests to be made by people, then others vote up
the features they want the most. The developer can then indicate which
ones are being considered, which are being worked on, which are not
possible, etc.
There are discussions around each feature as well, so workarounds can
be explained and so on.
Hopefully by using some sort of system to manage feature requests you
can find a good selection of easy to do, but wanted features, and
wanted but non trivial additions for each release.

As a developer they help communicate with customers as well inform
them they are being listened to (which, admittedly, is not much of a
problem, but can be as Tasker grows)

Here is a list of such solutions:
1. Uservoice: there is a free version that looks like it would work
2. Ideatorrent: more powerful, but you'd have to find a host

Getsatisfaction: their free versions seems more limited than Uservoice
CrowdSound
Ideascale


Thanks for considering this,
Frog29

[jorgesm]

That's an excellent idea, I second that.