<div dir="ltr">Hi Javier,<div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">You may use the </span><a href="http://dev.opennebula.org/" title="http://dev.opennebula.org" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,152,195);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)" target="_blank">development portal</a><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"> to make feature requests, just open a new issue and label it as Request.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">> The issue will be used to track the discussions about the new feature. We try to contact you as soon as possible</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">> to have more information and to give you a first feedback about your request. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><font color="#353735" face="Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">I am not a big fan of using the development portal / bug tracking tool for sending / discussing feature request. I </span></font><font color="#353735" face="Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.98611068725586px">favour</span></font><font color="#353735" face="Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"> a regular mailing list ex. dev@ list where anyone that wish to receive upcoming feature can subscribe. Perhaps the dev@ list could receive a copy of any new feature requests that's opened / updated in the development portal. If we want to make sure everything gets tracked in the development portal, make the list read only and force users to submit updates though the portal. Or, make it possible to easily receive notifications of new "features" requests (such as an RSS feed) and make sure issues are properly categorized (one may not want to receive general users / unconfirmed bugs or support requests). </span></font></span></div>
<div><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><font color="#353735" face="Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></span></div><div style><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><font color="#353735" face="Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">Also I think the users@ list </span></font></span><span style="color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17.98611068725586px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">could</span><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><font color="#353735" face="Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"> be for general support / users discussion. Any new features or patches could be discussed in a separate dev@ list. Also perhaps the ecosystem@ list </span></font></span><span style="color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17.98611068725586px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">could</span><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><font color="#353735" face="Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"> be renamed to something more meaningful, at one point it wasn't clear for me if ecosystem@ was for general development discussions.</span></font></span></div>
<div style><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><font color="#353735" face="Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></span></div>
<div>><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">At the beginning of each release cycle we organize a </span><a href="http://opennebula.org/community:irc" title="http://opennebula.org/community:irc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,152,195);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">IRC meeting</a><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"> to discuss the requests for new features and for extending</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">> existing features. This valuable input to the planning meeting is used to create the short-term roadmap with the features that</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(53,55,53);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">> will be part of the release cycle. The final roadmap is described in a blog post after the planning meeting. </span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Javier Fontan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfontan@opennebula.org" target="_blank">jfontan@opennebula.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear community,<br>
<br>
We've been thinking on how to improve the communication channel<br>
between users and developers. In the following link, you can find a<br>
summary of the ideas:<br>
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<a href="http://opennebula.org/software:roadmap?&#how_do_we_receive_feedback_from_the_community" target="_blank">http://opennebula.org/software:roadmap?&#how_do_we_receive_feedback_from_the_community</a><br>
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Any feedback on this topic is more than welcome.<br>
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Cheers<br>
<br>
--<br>
Javier Fontán Muiños<br>
Project Engineer<br>
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization<br>
<a href="http://www.OpenNebula.org" target="_blank">www.OpenNebula.org</a> | <a href="mailto:jfontan@opennebula.org">jfontan@opennebula.org</a> | @OpenNebula<br>
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