Van,
I like what you've proposed. I have a few perfections to improve.
1) Increase ease of capturing requirements. Some users have given feedback
that JIRA is a bit cumbersome to easily log feature requests or feedback. 2
options to increase ease of use would be to simplify and hide some of the
JIRA fields and/or to once again start using a tool like uservoice
(http:///mifosinitiative.uservoice.com) as a first filter and then we can
take ideas that gain interest there and add more detail to them as JIRA
feature requests.
2) Process for collecting feedback. For each release we have the following
structured planning process:
* Open call for feature requests/suggestions (administered through
intermediaries, directly in JIRA, virtual user meetings, feedback from
Specialists, etc.) [2 weeks]
* Developers "triage" which of these features could potentially be worked
based on need, product realities and volunteer resources" and narrow down
requested feature set to a pool of 10-15 features
* Community Product Roadmap Voting Period. Community can then vote for the
5-10 features they would like in the next release (from the pool of 10-15
features). [1 week] Volunteers would be assigned to projects for these
selected features. Any features not selected would be up for development in
next release or (as you stated) MFI could hire a developer/team to build for
them now.
I think this process would be democratic enough in allowing true community
input and feedback but would allow the core volunteer developer team to
properly manage expectations and what features could be worked on.
Ed
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