Re: Proposal: popfeat - a gui feature proposal popularity tracker
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 04:11:16PM -0700, Christopher McKenzie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've probably met a number of you in Brest or Busan.
>
> Anyways I'd like to help align open source GUI features with user
> expectations and realize maybe you can help me.
>
> The basic idea is a popcon but for desired software behaviors. Currently
> developers don't necessarily have a clear empirical signal of how much
> changing a behavior is desired.
>
> There's a perennial risk of catering to a vocal 1%. I'm thinking of
> building a votable database of behavior changes, not bugs but instead user
> preferences.
>
> I can of course build this independently but positioning it under Debian I
> think is a mutually stronger position and I'd probably be able to get more
> people on board to help make this a reality faster.
>
> Does this sound like something that can align with popcon?
How would this work ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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