Unofficial wish list status.(Jul 2008)

[Koroskin Denis]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:13:05 +0400, Knud Soerensen  
<4tuu4k002 at sneakemail.com> wrote:

> I created the wishlist to reduce the
> high level of repeated postings of similar ideas,
> and the community could help Walter single out the good ideas
> via voting.
>
>
> When new users joined the newsgroup they
> had the tendency to suggest thing that have already been
> discussed several times.
>
> Also good ideas by experts which didn't have time to post much
> had a tendency to drown in the "noise".
>
> Of cause the wish list have several short comings.
> Like no way to post comments and a admin which is busy with other things
> e.t.c.
>
> I had the hope that someone with time would write a good replacement.
> (Like the forum used on http://labs.powerset.com/. Does anyone know
> which software they use ?).
>
> Walter have suggested that bugzilla is used for enhancement requests,
> this is a very good idea, but as far as I can see it is not currently
> possible to vote on the requests, or generate a list with the most voted
> on enhancement requests, as the wishlist does.
>
> Of cause I added a request for this to the wishlist
> http://all-technology.com/eigenpolls/dwishlist/index.php?it=176

How about resetting wish-list votes once in a while or dropping votes that  
are older than, say, a year?
Other than that it is ok to have such poll.

But its current contents should certainly be revised, since it makes  
little sense to contribute to this list now that it doesn't reflect D  
status anymore.