Where do I submit ideas?

[Shish]

Idea #0: an open-source ideas wiki, where we can collect all the awesome ideas that the original inventors don't have time to actually implement (idea partially inspired by lugradio.org podcast discussion about how open source has just as many great ideas as closed, it's just that nobody bothers to implement them fully enough to be noticed -- hence we end up with sourceforge being full of tens of thousands of projects with a great idea, a CVS commit or two, and no release)

Idea #1: Using the same mechanism that saves session on logout so things start running when you log in again -- have a button alongside minimise, close, etc, which saves a single program's session as a desktop icon, with a screenshot of it's current state as the image.

It's 3am and I keep passing out from lack of sleep, so I'm not sure how sane the ideas are, but I figured I should put them into some sort of public linux forum before I forget them. Ubuntu seems to be prompting a lot of cool open source things, hence this was the only place I could think of posting -- If there already is a central repository of cool ideas*, please forgive my unnecessary post and direct me to it~

* I did think of filing a feature request bug report, but then there's no bugzilla where I can request features for projects that don't exist yet...

[kostkon]

A good place to share your ideas is here:

https://launchpad.net/specs

[graabein]

Idea #0: I like it but isn't that what sourceforge is supposed to be? I'm pretty sure there are easily available search options and help-wanted lists. Maybe there should be a "todays dead-projects" list? Extending sourceforge seems like a better option than creating yet another forum/online database.

Idea #1: An option like that should IMHO be put under the application menu and not on the window bar next to minimise/maximise/close buttons.

Just my thoughts.

[Shish]

> I like it but isn't that what sourceforge is supposed to be?

SF is designed for hosting actual projects with actual code; you *can* find good ideas if you search through the dead projects list, but it's not designed for it, and hence it's a pain to find things -- what I'm suggesting is a place where anyone (end users, especially) can come along and add something to the "wouldn't it be cool if ... ?" list (more specifically, "wouldn't it be cool if there was an open source program with the ability to ... ?")


> https://launchpad.net/specs

Looks like a formal version of what I want. It looks like a good place for ideas that've had some thought and planning gone into them, but I'd like somewhere for ideas that haven't reached that stage yet -- the ones that have only ever been described as quick doodles on the back of napkins during pub chatter and the like (which is where a lot of my ideas come from, and die soon after -- I don't have time to implement them alone, and I don't have anywhere I can show them to other people who may be willing to work with me)

[ssam]

launchpad is good for 'on the back of napkin' ideas. they call them braindumps. you can edit and update the ideas when you want

[Shish]

> they call them braindumps.

ah, thanks -- it all makes much more sense now I know what word I'm looking for :)