Re: Are feature request bugs ever looked at?

On 05/06/2012 08:23 AM, Dmitri Dmitrison wrote: > 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? Most questions in this vein draw this magic line in the sand between developers and users. The truth is that this is a completely mythical line. Everybody is a developer, some just have more experience than others. A feature request that is interesting enough should eventually take care of itself because someone out there will write a decent implementation and, if the feature is big enough, an accompanying RFC. -Rasmus