Re: Re: Proposal: popfeat - a gui feature proposal popularity tracker
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 09:05:55AM -0700, Christopher McKenzie wrote:
> Essentially start with an off-the-shelf open source feature voting
> solution, host it somewhere, make it "multi-product" where each product
> correlates to an apt package, contribute the modifications upstream to the
> feature voting system as needed, and the debian connection makes it not
> just some random website but perhaps something that feels semi-official (?)
> because people voting on something will really only practically have any
> kind of sway with some kind of affiliation.
>
> Additionally it allows people to "contribute" to open source with just a
> click of a mouse - that simple act will help motivate future development
> hopefully to more desirable workflows and interfaces.
But technologically this is very far from what popularity-contest is doing,
so I am not sure how we can help you.
My expectation is that only the "vocal minority" will vote and that what most
users actually want is no visible user interface changes...
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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