Brian, I agree with you that feature requests can't gain traction because they are private, i.e. sent to the developer directly.
It would be nice to use a system similar to Jetbrains where users can vote on submitted feature requests. Thanks, Rick On Friday, May 2, 2014 1:14:33 PM UTC-4, Brian Porter wrote: > > There is a way to make feature requests. > > >> The better job you do of describing >> the feature, why you want it and the easier you make it for some >> one a BBEdit have all of the information on hand, the more >> likely you will gain some traction >> >> > Hi Bill. > > I've done that plenty of times, as poor Patrick will certainly attest. > There's a big problem with that approach though; it's private and doesn't > "gain traction" at all. It's unlikely that BB is going to implement a > feature for a single person, but if there's grassroots support for it that > changes the return on BB's effort to implement it. > > Or put another way: Emailing them doesn't get the idea in front of other > users' eyes. Tech support makes sense to do one-on-one, but as a developer > myself I'd much prefer feature requests to be public exactly to reduce the > load of managing them by condensing interest into individual threads. We'll > never know how many past or future emails BB has to deal with (or ignore) > about elastic tab stops, but anyone else who finds this (Google searchable) > thread will have a place to chime in easily. The will also be able to gauge > how much interest both the community, and Bare Bones, have in it. > > Thanks for the reminder about policy though. I'll try not to upset the > balance in the future, but I can't be responsible for anyone else posting > here about wanting elastic tab stops now-- I'm afraid the damage is done. > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
