[Asterisk-Dev] Bug Tracker / Feature Requests (my take)

[Brian West]

> Then one of the services they are willing to buy should be programming
> by someone who can do what they need.

Bravo... excellent point. ;)

> Voting by end users would be bad. End users would vote for redundant
> features as they don't understand how to use what is already available
> to them. If you chose to limit it to developers, then you run into the
> trouble of qualifying a person as eligible. I used to be proficient
> enough to consider myself a developer, but I have kept busy elsewhere
> and am not nearly as proficient as I used to be.

Exactly.  

> The trouble being which part of the community is important right now.
> The developer community is most important to most of us as they make
> sure we get new features at all. The end user community is more of a
> drain the a contribution. Even Mark has mentioned how disproportionate
> our developers to users ratio is to most other projects.

Yep.  If you really look at mantis we have done at least 80% of the requests
that have been posted.  Some requests are just down right stupid or not very
feasible.

bkw