[dot org] 3/9 Feature Requests and Voting Mechanism

[PMario]

Hi Folks,

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Improve Community Communication proposal

03 Feature Request and Voting Mechanism

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Hi Folks,
this is Pietsch Mario again with the next video about

Community Communications and how a Feature Request would look like

As I showed you in the last video there is the TiddlyWiki main page proposal or

Landing Page proposal and here's something which is called Feature Request

I'm using these elements and there are two links which at the moment

point to the platform which is called GitLab yeah but if there are enough

let's say a community developers we could create our own UI if we want

At the moment we are using what's there and which is finished and

well integrated into a developer's workflow

so yeah I go to the feature request board

there is an overview about let's say

different possibilities like plug-in territory

or let's say tags

and under consideration

help wanted and doing so

if a developer decides to implement a new feature then it can land here so

this is like Kanban board and there we have different overview. The second link

is the Feature Request List which looks like this so we have everything in

list form and we can sort by weight which is assigned by the developers or

by popularity which is the up-votes

for example and test image I go there and if

I want to up-vote I can't because I need to sign in okay so you can register a

new account so you can use your Twitter account or your Google account or you

can sign in whith GitHub I personally would suggest if you already have a

GitHub account use this one and try to create the same name that you have with

github that this would be lets say an easy way for the developers to identify

the different users

okay I did create a new account and I sign in with this one

I call it lab-video

okay so I'm back and now I have the possibility

Luca created Luca also upvoted this test issue so I can upload

it to and now if we have an overview

we can see it sorted by popularity so now

the two up-votes are there and this gives us a very nice way or let's say the

developers a very nice way to see what's really requested by different users or

by the community at the moment with github we have about I had a look some

time ago we have about 400 to 450 open issues which are feature requests and

most of them are not actionable so here we would have let's say a very good way

and also they have possibility

ah let's say to upload these features okay maybe I said at the moment I'm

proposing this workflow but if we have enough developers for the homepage we

could make our own UI would be possible okay

yeah that's it for the feature requests different possibilities that we have and

the see you with the next video

where I talk about feature requests with emails see

See you

[bimlas]

GitLab's "like" button would definitely be useful, because currently pull requests are in bulk, not ranked, plus a lot could be closed, but that hasn't happened yet. If there would be also a third button to indicate that a request could be closed, we would not have such a problem.