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What is the best medium for sending feature requests? Both for Ubuntu as a whole and individual (supported) apps?

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Noel, you need some change in the answer or the answer provided is enough? – Manish Sinha Mar 1 '11 at 21:30
Most feature requests are ignored, regardless of the venue. There simply are not enough volunteer developers to respond to the constant flood of requests. The best way to add a feature to Ubuntu is to create it, or find it in the wild and package it, or to help a project or team that is working on it. – user535733 May 6 '12 at 23:44

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Individual Applications

For individual apps, the best way is not Brainstorm, but filing a bug requests or feature request in the individual applications.

Some upstream development portals might be having explicit feature for asking user ideas but most of them use their bug tracker for that.

Example, you want a new feature in Synapse (the kick-ass launcher powered by zeitgeist) then you can file a bug request, ask for the feature and ask for the bug to be classified under Wishlist.

Or before filing bugs for wishlist, you might want to talk to the devs of the particular application. You can look at their mailing list or IRC channel.

Ubuntu

For Ubuntu, as Octavian mentioned Brainstorm is supposed to be a good platform, but sadly most of the ideas are neglected.

Recently Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman mentioned that Technical Board will take up 10 most popular ideas and respond to them. I still find Brainstorm a big disappointment. Just too many ideas are logged to such an extent that the good ideas are lost in the crowd.

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so basically there is no way to make sure that your idea or request ATLEAST reached canonical team? Can getting involved here- wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork be limited to just giving ideas? – Nirmik Aug 17 '12 at 16:33
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That would be Ubuntu Brainstorm.

There you can propose an idea so other members can vote it up (promote) or down (demote) and where they can comment on your idea. Basically where you can brainstorm with other users.

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Yes you can but this not the site for it.

Take a look at the Ubuntu Brainstorm Site which was set-up for just this purpose. Users can suggest new features and others comment and vote on these. I believe Canonical consider the more popular requests but a change being popular is no guarantee it will be implemented.

Depending on the type of request reporting a bug on Launchpad may be appropriate too. If its a request for a minor change file a bug stating its a "wish list" and what you would like. Wish list bugs tend to be low priority though. It may be better to try and find the upstream developers for that package and contact them directly.

If the feature: is can we include this package in the repositories you file a bug for that too and tag the bug "needs packaging" see here

Finally if you are a developer you way wish to consider the Blueprint Process documented here also managed in Launchpad

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Thanks for your answer – Nur Mar 8 at 4:04

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