On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:56:32AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > I was thinking it might be a nice idea to have Fedora Engineering > Services create for us a "Fedora Suggestion Box". > > This would be a way for people to anonymously submit suggestions or > ideas to Fedora for consideration. It could either be a web based > form/app (which would have the advantage of letting us use captchas or > the like and also let us explain what sort of suggestions we want, one > suggestion per submit, etc), or a email address (which would get a lot > more spam, but be easier for folks), or I suppose both. > > We then have a group of folks look through the submissions and: > > - Drop obvious spam > - Drop obvious things Fedora will never do (ship non free software, > mp3, legal changes, etc). > - Drop things that don't have an actual suggestion in them. > - Send the rest to a list for interested parties in fedora (Board, > FESCo, SIGs, etc) to look at and consider. > > There would be no promise that a suggestion would be acted on or looked > at, but I think we might end up getting some ideas here that would > would not otherwise get (due to people not knowing where to suggest, or > being afraid they will look foolish, or thinking that their views in > other venues have been ignored). > > Of course we could also get a lot of things we can't act on or use. > > What do people think of this idea? While I am not totally against the idea, I do wonder why there is need for anonymity. Anyone wanting to anonymously suggest something could accomplish the same thing by using a different email address, but why? People should take credit for their suggestions, good or bad. Justin _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
