Make wishlist more organized

[zord_majka]

Hey,

I saw you complaining in some thread that it's kind of hard to follow all these wishes all people around have. I think i have a simple solution. You can use similar forum tool/application they have for example at uTorrent site - they call it Idea bank - check it out http://www.utorrent.com/ideabank

Advantages are obvious - more wanted new features would gain more votes/popularity/weight among the community, it's easy to see if the feature is being worked on, ...

I made some research and there are couple of free versions of this. For example:
http://userecho.com/
http://crowdsound.com/
http://www.eldos.com/vp/index.php
http://www.betaeasy.com/
http://www.opensourcerails.com/projects/1785-OpenMind

[Steven]

thanks for the suggestions. The main problem though is when people put requests in other topics which makes it hard to remember. I dont think that will change even with your suggestion

[zord_majka]

I guess you're right.

I think the best benefit of this approach is that people/you see what's actually popular idea and what's marginal affair. Also people would see what you're actually implementing and what not...

[thegreyspot]

ya this is just like dropbox. Its a great idea.
Steven,   I would remind people to "Write the suggestion in the suggestion box" or else move it myself. If nobody moves it, then that just means there is no interest in that suggestion.

[donjulien]

I like the idea. I know that it will take long for people to get used to the idea that there is ONE (new) iinbox for suggestions and that they'd better check if their request hasn't been done before if they want it implemented someday

But if the rules are clear, they will gradually get there. Of course there will be the eventual noob that will make a wish out of place, rant about not being listened and all that, but for serious contributors, who understand that this is beta, that this is freeware, and that we are but humble helpers (and big winners) of Steven's efforts, this could be a valuable tool. It's easier to count votes for a feature like this than to manually count all the "+1, cool idea, dude!" around.

Still, as Steven suggests, people won't organize by themselves. We might need a curator; someone who helps weeding out the suggestions and merge together those that are redundant or complement each other, as well as telling people "your feature has been implemented: check here and here..."

Show of hands? Maybe I should raise mine. Really, Steven, if you think something like this could work, I could give it a shot. Think about it.