[Sugar-devel] Vision

[Dave Crossland]

Hi Manash!

On 20 April 2016 at 01:04, Manash Raja <mpdmanash at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to add a few thoughts.
>

Thank you! :D


> I am a new member to the community and from my personal experience I found
> that when it comes to contribution, it is quite difficult at the beginning
> to align with the vision of Sugar, the trend and to understand which area
> of development is being promoted for the future. I would pretty excited to
> see pages like this
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Project_Ideas being used
> extensively to bring in new ideas and showcasing the trend we desire.
>

I agree - but sadly that page hasn't been updated substantially since 2010.


> I can understand the process to propose an idea that starts with: Feature
> Page => posting on sugar-devel for discussion.
> But suppose we have 2 sections in the Project_Ideas page: 1) New Ideas
> List ... 2) Top 5/10 features to be developed now. In this case anyone can
> put his/her ideas on the first section which would enable ideas being
> brainstormed in much larger scale. Discussion would create more and better
> ideas to be implemented. This will be the pre-stage before proposing though
> the standard route of Feature page and sugar-devel and I thing this would
> boost confidence about an idea for new members to the community. The second
> section would be maintained mostly by the experienced members so that we
> all have focus on the future trend and can be the starting point to think
> for new features and implementations.


I like it!

These pages of the wiki seem relevant/recent:

https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy

https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.110/Feature_List

-- 
Cheers
Dave
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