Richard Brown wrote:
So for topics like this, we'd recommend using this mailinglist, or maybe more specific lists when they exist (eg. opensuse-kubic@, yast-devel@, etc) for any discussions needed to refine a feature idea.
I do not think, that mailing lists are the best place for feature requests. Many feature requests have the characteristic that some users are interested in a feature including some community or paid developers which have the skills to realize such a feature, but all are waiting for proposals, opinions, supporters and decisions. And of course time is always a limitation. So even developers with the skills can not start directly with implementing features. Mailing list discussions about features often stop after some days or end with some trouble. For instance the discussion about old Linux kernels for the Leap distributions in this mailing list ended in some trouble. Many users argued that they want to have newer kernels because they are interested to install and run openSUSE Leap on new hardware and SUSE employees argued that this is too costly and so impossible (at least for openSUSE; it works for Ubuntu). If I want to come back on this discussion I have to search the mailing list archive to have a link for this discussion and I have to start again in the mailing list. It would be much better, if we had a ticket for this user request and everyone, who is interested can subscribe the ticket.
From a professional developer perspective it would be nice to have features known from Github or Atlassian Jira also for the openSUSE community. Bugzilla is not bad to normal bugs, but Github, Jira and other modern platforms have much more useful features e.g. to process feature requests.
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