Re: [Launchpad-users] Blueprints in Launchpad?!

["Charlie Poole" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm pretty new to this, but maybe my newness is a qualification
here - at least I'm looking at blueprints with new eyes. :-)

I read some of the examples you pointed to and they just seem
like suggestions to me. I didn't imagine using blueprints for
that purpose.

When I set up my projects, I assumed that any blueprint we
created would have a specification attached - in fact that's
an alternate name for a specification. We created some without
a true spec but only as a placeholder. The person creating
the blueprint will go back and fill in the full spec, then
it will be reviewed and approved.

I find this *very* useful. In fact, in an earlier version
of my project, I used a wiki with specially modified code
to provide a primitive form of what blueprints do.

BUT I never imagined blueprints as being a place for
wishes, ideas without solutions or bugs. Maybe the biggest
problem is that there is nothing in Launchpad to encouorage
you to avoid using them that way.

BTW, the problem you mention is not unique to blueprints.
I've seen sourceforge projects with lots of feature
requests that are never acted on. I think it's a question
of project discipline, not of the facility.

Charlie

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:launchpad-users-bounces+charlie=nunit.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> pad.net] On Behalf Of Bernd
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 12:27 PM
> To: launchpad-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Launchpad-users] Blueprints in Launchpad?!
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I registered a few blueprints in the past, but for my opinion 
> blueprints in launchpad are very useless.
> 
> But why do I think so? I gained experience that blueprints 
> doesn't get an answer, always stay unchanged and nobody reviews them.
> 
> In my opinion it's better to report a bug also for feature 
> requests. Bug reports get a lot more attention. Nobody would 
> like to have a lot of open bugs. But open blueprints doesn't matter.
> 
> As example you should have a look on the "Ubuntu One" Blueprint page:
> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntuone
> 
> What's your opinion on blueprints?
> 
> 
> ~ Bernd Schlapsi
> 
> 
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