On 16 November 2010 10:18, Curtis Hovey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 22:51 +0000, Shane Fagan wrote: >> > > I believe team polls have failed and are dying. >> >> Ive never seen them being used personally. Id suggest if its not harming >> anything by keeping it in just leaving it as is. Having an extra feature >> never hurts. > > Actually, It always hurts. It is always bad: > > 1. The bad UI experience reflects poorly on all Launchpad. > 2. A user tried to mess with URLs to avoid the UI and caused an > oops. I spent a couple days fixing an issue that I personally do > not think should ever have been a priority. Certainly there are > at least a 1000 more important bugs than the oops, but we > believe oopses are always I high priority. > 3. Pages are slower to load because the application looks for poll > data. > 4. We must update the code as libraries and infrastructure changes. > 5. We need to triage and retriage all the poll bugs. > 6. We need to answer user questions on Lp Answers and IRC. > > It is better that Launchpad provides 5 really great features than to > provide 10 mediocre features. I prefer to remove the feature, but if the > community believes that it is important, we might work on this in the > upcoming Launchpad bugjam to close as many bugs as possible in a week. I > cannot foresee this feature being compelling in the net two years > without a contributor dedicating time to it.
+so_much I'd add one more thing to your list, which is that being willing to cut existing features develops a culture of being critical about whether we should add/retain other features in the future. Perhaps you should post on blog.launchpad.net, with a link to the archive of this thread. We will see if the people who care to comment want them kept, or like the idea of fewer better features. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
