Comments on: Weathering the Ubuntu brainstorm

By: Ubuntu Brainstorm – Contacts Lens « Allison Randal

Ubuntu Brainstorm – Contacts Lens « Allison Randal — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:15:26 +0000

[...] time for another round on the Ubuntu Technical Board’s review of the top ranked items on Ubuntu Brainstorm. This time I’m reviewing a brainstorm about a Unity Lens for contacts, [...]

By: Top ideas on Ubuntu Brainstorm (March 2011) « Martin Pitt

Top ideas on Ubuntu Brainstorm (March 2011) « Martin Pitt — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:53:25 +0000

[...] few months ago, Matt Zimmerman kicked offa new tradition of a quarterly review of the most popular Ubuntu Brainstorm ideas. He did the [...]

By: Ubuntu Brainstorm – Multimedia Performance « Allison Randal

Ubuntu Brainstorm – Multimedia Performance « Allison Randal — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:37:13 +0000

[...] and developers and community members vote and comment on the idea. As part of an initiative to increase the visibility of the highest rated ideas and speed their progress into the distribution, I’ve been asked to post my thoughts on an [...]

By: Back to the future « We'll see | Matt Zimmerman

Back to the future « We'll see | Matt Zimmerman — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:43:29 +0000

[...] a more central role in Ubuntu, looking after concerns which affect the project as a whole, such as transparency and development processes. I’m also re-joining Debian as a non-uploading contributor, to work [...]

By: Jonathan Lange

Jonathan Lange — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:39:08 +0000

Hey Jack,

We’ve currently got some half-formed plans on doing roughly that. You might want to check out https://dev.launchpad.net/IssueTracker.

cheers,
jml

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:36:41 +0000

Excellent idea!

By: Ubuntu rispondera’ ad Ubuntu « GNUpress!

Ubuntu rispondera’ ad Ubuntu « GNUpress! — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:19:22 +0000

[...] facile associare le due cose. L’ultima dimostrazione di tutto questo e’ la scelta di dare una risposta ufficiale alle domande piu’ votate di ubuntu braistorm: “…il Comitato Tecnico farà in modo [...]

By: Randall

Randall — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:22:06 +0000

I second this idea. In engineering terms, we need to “close the loop”. It is quite useful to apply feedback directly into a system, and Brainstorm is one such signal. It’s currently only weakly coupled. (The technical board reviews are a good step in improving that, but highly manual.)

Additionally, if we integrate into Launchpad the great idea contributors can be rewarded with karma, consistent with Ubuntu’s meritocracy approach.

Finally, the absolute best ideas can flow naturally into Blueprints.

By: Randall

Randall — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:15:54 +0000

Thanks Matt for moving this forward. I’m happy to see Brainstorm regain the spotlight.

By: Eric Pritchett

Eric Pritchett — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:39:45 +0000

This is great to hear as I was starting to think Ubuntu Brainstorm was going down the path of “uselessness.” I’ve stopped using Brainstorm because I felt like the suggestions weren’t really taken seriously. It seemed like Canonical would take their own route with Ubuntu and the *maybe* look at the brainstorm to see what ideas fit what they were doing. The Ubuntu Software Center comes to mind first where the developer searched brainstorm for all idea related to the Software Center.
I think it would be great if there was a release cycle or a project like Paper Cuts that would deal strictly with the Brainstorm ideas and implement the top 10 or so ideas each cycle. If the idea doesn’t work then close it out and move to the next one. As far as users are concerned commenting on an idea is nice, but implementation is was really matters.