<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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:</div><div style>- Creating an idea creates a wishlist bug.</div>
<div style>- Upvotes = "This bug affects me"</div><div style>- Comments would obviously translate to comments...</div><div style><br></div><div style>Looking through the Launchpad API ( <a href="https://launchpad.net/+apidoc/1.0.html">https://launchpad.net/+apidoc/1.0.html</a> ) 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.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Cheers,</div><div style>David</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpt@canonical.com" target="_blank">mpt@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> b) User interest (as indicated by the voting) is waning.<br>
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> c) It seems that developer interest is waning to a point that some<br>
> developers feel that responding to the ideas isn't an ideal use of<br>
> time.<br>
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Those two are related. Ideas are cheap, implementation is hard. And<br>
some potential contributors will have been discouraged from helping<br>
with Ubuntu's implementation because they mistakenly thought posting<br>
ideas to Brainstorm was a good place to get started.<br>
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So yes, please, let's retire it.<br>
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