On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 4:44:09 AM UTC-7, [email protected] 
wrote:
>
> I am completely fine with having to implement something I miss myself.  
> But a open source project should have a central system where people can 
> file feature requests / ideas / suggestions.
>

I disagree.  Ideas without a proposed implementation have little to no 
value.

I appreciate your commitment (such ambiguity) to this project, but by using 
> the GitHub Issues only for bug reports and therefore closing all feature 
> requests,
> although it is common on GitHub to also allow feature requests in the 
> issue tracker,
> you implicitly imply that your project is perfect (i.e. everybody is 
> satisfied, nobody misses anything).
>

I don't think it implies perfection at all.  If you just allow bug reports 
in GitHub Issues, and there are no open issues, it only implies the project 
has no known bugs.
 

> A prove that I am not the only one who judges projects by their GitHub 
> Issue page:
> http://solnic.eu/2011/11/29/the-state-of-ruby-orm.html
>
>> [..] I’m also absolutely amazed that this project has 0 issues on github 
>> - HUGE congratulations to Jeremy Evans. He’s doing a fantastic work and I’m 
>> really impressed so you should be.
>
>
It's fairly easy to have 0 open issues in general, just close all issues 
that are submitted.  The number of issues is not really important, it's how 
the issues are handled.  And if you look at the handling of issues, you'll 
see that issues that are not bugs are closed quickly and real bugs are 
fixed quickly.
 

>  I don't want to offend you but IMO this is more like censorship.
>

You are entitled to your opinion, but I and the dictionary would disagree. 
 Censorship would be me editing issues to remove parts I don't like.
 

> Why don't you want feature requests in GitHub Issues? There is a Label 
> function... you could easily label and filter them ...
>

I think keeping feature requests in GitHub Issues is actively harmful to 
projects, as it encourages them to focus on features instead of fixing bugs.
  

> If you don't want this for whatever reason could you setup an external 
> system for feature requests?
>

sequel-talk is that system.  This is where feature requests are discussed.

FWIW, Rails has the same policy as Sequel, they don't support feature 
requests in GitHub Issues.  So it's not like Sequel is the only major ruby 
project that with this policy.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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