Thanks Chip Agreed: I think it is absolutely essential that the USERS of Cloudstack help drive the new features and roadmap of the product. We are the people at the "coalface", we are the people who hear feedback from our businesses & customers on a daily basis
As an example, I saw a mail (yesterday?) about the lack of password reset. To many in this community, that is probably a trivial issue. However, I can tell everybody that it is the number 1 feature complaint I get from Cloudstack customers. In the real world, it just isn't sensible to deploy a user facing GUI if users cannot reset their own passwords. Features like this may not be as high profile and interesting as others, but they are things that make a difference when people decide whether to use CS or not What you suggest is exactly what I intend doing.... my session at Collab is called " Feedback from the coalface: what our customers are asking for". I intend to make it an interactive discussion/workshop for people to bring in their ideas of great new features. If we get enough ideas, we may even have a vote on preferences and priorities. Although that workshop wouldn't be a formal Apache workshop, I would like to think that we can bring those ideas into the community for consideration afterwards. In advance of this session, what I'm trying to do is take stock of what is already requested and/or planned. And so far (from my previous) I see only 12 open requests. Thinking about it, if anybody has any good ideas for feature requests, it would be great if you're able to share them on this list (or PM me if you prefer) - I can then feed those ideas into the session at Collab. Also thinking about it Chip : do you want to help me run that session ? :-) -----Original Message----- From: Chip Childers [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 01 November 2012 13:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: new features On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Giles Sirett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > I’m preparing a workshop for the Collab conf end November and I want > to get a definitive list of all current open feature requests for > Cloudstack > > I go here > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator!executeAdvanced.j > spa > > and search for > > project = CLOUDSTACK AND issuetype = "New Feature" ORDER BY priority > DESC > > gives me 12 results > > Is that correct? – is that ALL open new feature requests ? > > Kind Regards > > Giles > Hey Giles, I actually started a thread related to this on [email protected] recently, specifically focused on the feature release after 4.0.0-incubating. We're trying to sort out (1) how we collect new feature ideas, and (2) how we organize them into release activities as I type this. I do know that there are many ideas that have already been proposed on the dev list that are not records in Jira yet. If the user community (this list) is interested in driving a discussion around what you would like the developers to work on, I think that would be a great thing to do. Keep in mind that the developers will pick and choose what they are interested in working on, but the more information we get from our users the better! -chip ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
