[WIP] Feature Ideas for Proposals
This page is a space to explore the best way to represent product ideas or feature requests that could lead to new proposals. Feel free to experiment with formatting approaches here! Once we’ve landed on a format that works well, we’ll use this page either to list proposal ideas directly or to link out to an external location where ideas are collected.
Option 1: Github Feature Requests
Use Github to submit, store, and vote on feature requests. There is already an issue template specifically for feature requests (see below). A potential drawback is that users require a Github account to submit requests.
Feature request tickets could be stored in a view in Github with column names similar to the below Trello example:
Option 2: Confluence Table
Manually add feature requests to a table somewhere in this wiki; a database would give us more flexibility, but they are currently not visible to unauthenticated users (perhaps this isn’t a problem..?). We'd need to determine the best way to format the table. Here’s a quick example:
Pain Point | Release | Role | Existing Solution | Proposed Solution | Priority | Related Proposal | Link to discussion | Interested Parties |
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Course teams miss forum activity unless they are the post author, or they explicitly follow a thread | Redwood | Course Admin |
| More fine-grained notification preferences | HIGH |
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Instance admin cannot see X feature | Teak | Instance Manager | Turn on waffle flag |
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Option 3: Forum
Create a “feature request” category in the forum and encourage community members to share their ideas there. Each feature request would be its own discussion thread, with a “home page” that links to each thread, maybe in a table, with some kind of polling. See the mock-up below:
Use forum polls to gauge popularity for specific ideas. Here’s a screenshot of what polls look like in the forum:
The forum is available to everyone, and this approach would allow discussion of the idea in isolated threads, easy filters and search, and powerful formatting.
Option 4: Add Your Idea Here!
Add your idea…