I think this is a case of what was envisioned and what is actually happening on devtalk currently being a tiny bit out of whack.
Devs getting feedback on specific topics is great! a wall of 'Hey devs, lets vote! left or right mouse button!', 'when is feature X finially finished?' and 'lets change blenders version number!' not quite as much. --Ray On 6/1/2018 2:29 PM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: > I think it can work if we make it so developers start topics to request > feedback on features they are working on. For example one topic for > shortcut key changes, one for collections, etc. Then we can strictly > moderate it, close topics when a project is done and keep the number of > topics under control to avoid overpowering the other posts. > > If we let everyone make topics about whatever it's always going to be > difficult to manage, regardless if we do it on devtalk or another forum. > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Ray Molenkamp <r...@lazydodo.com> wrote: > >> All, >> >> As I understood devtalk was setup as a dev 2 dev support site, I'm kinda >> confused we invited end users to 'join the conversation' on it now, as >> they are putting feature requests all over the place, last night the >> blender development forum was 80+% feature requests on the first page. >> kinda ruining the signal to noise ratio. Since then someone came by and >> moved them all to the code-quest section. Also a banner has been put up >> mentioning the site is not for feature requests. but still, users do what >> user do... >> >> While I do see value in gathering user-feedback, it's not very hard to >> imagine that the line between feedback and feature requests is arbitrary >> at the best of times. >> >> Especially with all the changes currently in 2.8, it's also easy to see >> ahead of time that the discussion would be 'heated' at times, devtalk >> pretty much coasted by with little to no moderation. >> >> Given the response so far, it's clear users are screaming for an outlet >> to share their ideas/opinions/and feature requests. >> >> The question is, was devtalk really the best venue for this experiment? >> couldn't we just have spun up another discourse instance? >> >> --Ray >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers