As of lately, new, sometimes simple, feature requests added to bugzilla are being quickly closed as "invalid", with a short-text inviting the reporter to discuss the feature here (developer mailing list) rather than entering then at bugzilla.
This here is an invitation for us to discuss this policy and set it as "official" or not. Personally, I find this to be harmful to the project. I think closing a feature request outright as "invalid" is more or less equivalent to slamming a door in the face of someone which is otherwise eager to help. Even if the text always contain "looks a nice idea, let's talk about it on the mailing list", the "invalid'", if only for the status name means... "invalid". It is not a nice word to receive as an evaluation for what one thinks is a cool idea to the program Moreover, it is not like we have been talkign about small aditions to GIMP in this list, and finding "this is cool, it might go in right now" or "we have to draft an UI spec to that" (and _actyually_ have such a draft made. On the other hand most features I see being posted here have discussions that fade away into oblivion after a few replies, if that much. i agree that the list could be used for that, but it is has not been the case over the last few years. And still, a third point I see as counter-productive with the idea ofmaking the list "mandatory" for anyone with a new idea to GIMP: sometimes one may care even to the point of detailing an idea, and posting it to bugzilla, but the person is not (and IMHO, should not) necessarily be comited to helping GIMP to the point of joining the development mailing list. So, the person could simply think "well, I tried to help this program, but let me go back to my stuff). I'd do just so after filing bug reports to any other program I just use in a normal basis, and fortunately it did not happen there - and I am happy some of the ideas or suggestions I just filled in the respective bug tracker ended up as nice features instead of having them "invalidated" because I was not willing to join the development mailing list of each project. So, I for one, feel like such requests in bugzilla should be left in the "New" or "Unconfirmed" state, with a text inviting the person to discuss it either her or on IRC, stating that it might never part from "unconfirmed" otherwise (but also, it could happen - requests as simple as having an option to display a Layer's size could be done by any of the regular contributors if he felt like it and had the time). Whatever your (all) position on this, I'd like to state I am against the policy of simply marking a bug request as "invalid", when it is not necessarily so, a couple of hours/days after it is filled in. (Ref: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728493) js -><- _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
