I agree that IDEA shouldn't get bloated with lots of little features
that only are of use to one or two people,
but surely that's the whole point of this list - someone may have a
feature request / idea that may or may not
be of use to others, so we don't know whether it's an 'esoteric coding
convention' (I did like that phrase, whoever
used it) or not until others say 'yes we'd like that too' or 'no that's
not something I'd want'.  At the moment
it seems that there are a lot of "+1 me too" messages, but no "-1
because of reason x, y, z" messages.

Perhaps someone would like to use IDEA to write a servlet or some such
thing to provide a list of feature
ideas that people on the list have suggested, and then each registered
IDEA owner has, say, 10 'tokens' that they
can add to different features to point out how much they'd like that
feature / features.  Then, if the feature goes in,
they get the tokens back they assigned to it and can add them to
another feature they'd like.

I'm not saying that this should override what the IDEA team decide goes
in / doesn't go into the product, as they've
proved they know best in the end as IDEA is the most intuitive, useful
package I've used for anything computer
related, but it would give them an idea of what the customer base is
most interested in without having to wade through
huge lists of emails.

Just my .02 (insert currency of choice here) :)

Cheers,
Kev.


Kevin James
Prototype Systems Developer

Novell, Inc., a leading provider of Net business solutions
http://www.novell.com 

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