Re: Are feature request bugs ever looked at?

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > > We don't have the resources to go through and thoroughly evaluate each > feature request. A couple of developers will read each one and if it > resonates with them personally they will do something about it. > Otherwise they leave it for another developer to address later. > > Some numbers. We have had 2899 feature requests submitted. Out of these, > 605 are still open. 1134 have been implemented. 705 rejected because > they weren't valid features. 322 rejected as "Won't fix" for various > reasons. The rest are in various other states such as Duplicate, and > awaiting feedback. So feature requests do get processed eventually. > > -Rasmus That is actually a promising statistic. However, is there a predictable process for picking some requests over others? If it's based on whether it resonated with the PHP dev who happened to look at it, why even have a voting feature (and suggest that it somehow affects the bug's priority)? I understand this is a free software project, and that resources are limited. And that you can't force contributors to work on features they don't personally like. But I would have expected the bugs with hundreds of votes and/or comments to be inspected first... Or at least after 10 years... Am I being unreasonable? On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a quick reply from my phone: > anybody can register a wiki account and anybody can get rfc karma after > sending a mail to the php-webmaster mailing list (this is a basic spam > protection). > about the rfc vs bug tracker: the wiki and the rfc process came later than > the bugtracker. > I would open a feature request ticket if I don't know how to proceed further > or I don't have the time to create and push an RFC. Otherwise I would go > with an rfc: albeit it requires more work from the reporter but makes up for > it because it provides much bigger visibility and guranteed response from > the developers. Thank you, that makes more sense to me.