https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507569

--- Comment #5 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> ---
A difference between free open source development and other fields is that lots
of people ask us to do work on their behalf for free; that's essentially what
feature requests are.

If you asked a construction worker to build you a bridge for free, you should
expect them to just laugh, right?

But we're much nicer than that, and do in fact entertain many requests anyway.
However there's an implicit social contract behind it: it's considered
reasonable to request a new feature as long as the request is small and
well-scoped, exceptionally well described and actionable, or a precursor to the
reporter doing any of the work themselves. When those aren't true, we
customarily close out the request because it doesn't help anyone to end up with
a bug tracker full of "wouldn't it be nice if…" feature requests that will most
likely ever be implemented.

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