Should we sunset brainstorm.ubuntu.com?

[David Overcash]

I'm in agreement with Alexandru - Launchpad is certainly not an effective
place for new ( or even longtime ) users to submit ideas and wishlist bugs.
 The interface can be pretty intimidating and whatnot.  However, having the
data ON launchpad is the best place for it - developers can actually triage
and track progress, and users can be easily pulled into testing features
via a PPA.

Wouldn't it make sense to build a quick application using the Launchpad API
that effectively used wishlist bugs as it's persistent storage?  Seems
fairly straightforward:
- Creating an idea creates a wishlist bug.
- Upvotes = "This bug affects me"
- Comments would obviously translate to comments...

Looking through the Launchpad API ( https://launchpad.net/+apidoc/1.0.html )
it seems like it would be possible.  The obvious benefit being that the
traffic for each feeds the other - creating a nice feedback loop without
developers or users having to go anywhere they're not used to.

Cheers,
David


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com>wrote:

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> Jorge O. Castro wrote on 13/05/13 21:50:
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> > b) User interest (as indicated by the voting) is waning.
> >
> > c) It seems that developer interest is waning to a point that some
> > developers feel that responding to the ideas isn't an ideal use of
> > time.
> >
> > ...
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> Those two are related. Ideas are cheap, implementation is hard. And
> some potential contributors will have been discouraged from helping
> with Ubuntu's implementation because they mistakenly thought posting
> ideas to Brainstorm was a good place to get started.
>
> So yes, please, let's retire it.
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