After yesterday's openFATE screening team IRC meeting, I've overviewed recently requested features (via new instance) and got some additional impressions and questions which should be shared and further discussed. # You can read the mention below on http://openfate.titanpad.com/notes # as well. ;-) * Users can now request features for 'SUSE Gallary' and 'SUSE Studio Online (Hosted Service)' as well. As a part of openSUSE project, should screening team be responsible to features for 'SUSE Gallary' and 'SUSE Studio Online (Hosted Service)'? * Tags listed on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Openfate_screening#Tags are mostly appropriate for the features for the product "openSUSE 11.4", but not suitable for which for other products such as Buildservice, Package Wishlist, openFATE ... Do we need to prepare some more additional primary tags, or, tag them as "misc" anyway? * There's a newly requested feature "Include Pacman and VLC repos in OBS" https://features.opensuse.org/preview/310793 As Rémy has commented there, this feature cannot be realized due to legal issue. In such a case, may I move the status from "unconfirmed" to "rejected"? * Look at this feature: "Please add Python Turbogears to OBS" https://features.opensuse.org/preview/310794 I think this is a kind of 'Package Wishlist'. But in this case, a user has already built the package in his home project. Can I move the status from "unconfirmed" to "done"? Or, should I ask the requester "Do you want the software to be included in standard repository?" * The term "Customer benefit" evokes "Novell-Costomer" relationship. As a FLOSS community, we openSUSE don't have customers but users. Therefore I think it should be "User benefit". * In case the request is something like "openSUSE adopts A as default now. Let's replace A with B and set B as default!", it might be difficult to decide whether we should adopt the request or not. # You may remember the endless flame war "Default DE - KDE vs GNOME" See for example: "Include Unity as alternative GNOME GUI" https://features.opensuse.org/preview/310804 It is tagged as 'gnome' now, but I don't think GNOME people will accept including Unity *as alternative GNOME GUI*. :-P 1) Let's replace A with B and set B as default! 2) Let's add B in addition to A so that users can easily take their choice! I think 1 and 2 have very different meanings. But sometimes it is very vague whether a feature request says 1 or 2. So the question is, how should we navigate such kind of requests? * It takes thousands of man-hours to verify each feature request whether it is duplicated or already done. :-( We definitely need a solution for this problem. Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org