Feature request backlog/tracking/voting system

[altf13]

In use: http://feedback.cocoatech.com/pages/275-general
Product: http://uservoice.com/?referer_type=powe ... loc=bottom


The UserVoice system is brilliant. It organizes ideas in a way a normal forum just can't, and it very simply lays out what missing features are most important to the users as each user has a limited number of votes. Discussion can continue as normal within the forum, using hyper-links to jump between the two systems.

An alternative could be mandatory poll creation for each feature request, but without the ability to sort by popularity, it's nowhere near as useful.

[infuzion]

+1
Plus, a real bug-tracking system would help, since many bugs get burried in the forum, & one can't tell if a bug is still open or not.

[Nu Audio Science]

Yeah i think i have to agree with you guys here
This could very well be handled so much better

NAS

[infuzion]

Seems alot of bugs slip though the cracks. More so over the past year since there are more SM users, including SM-FL Though Malc does the best he can, there is really too much on his plate to remember to finish everything. People look at unfixed bugs as a reason to view the quality lower.

SM really needs a bug tracking system, where priorities can be set, tracking for open/closed, graphical views of % open by date, etc.

[trogluddite]

Get's a big thumbs up from me. I would have thought also that it would be beneficial to Malc too - it can't be easy to track this stuff over the hubbub that us lot make sometimes, and would make it easier to give us feedback without having to keep repeating things across multiple threads.

The Luddite.

[mwvdlee]

Couldn't we use the forum's poll system for a feature request voting system?

There's no point in voting per feature request, as all the "vote+"'s we see now, as it doesn't actually indicate priority.

There's atleast a dozen features I'd like to have, but of all those there is definitely a single one that I want most. I'm sure most people are in a similar situation and it would be nice if we could somehow share this information with the developers.

[oddson]

There's more involved in what features get implemented that a popularity contest. Does it serve a real need? How difficult is it to do? Is there a more general solution than the suggested feature?

I think Malc and Jorge will have a pretty good idea as to what portion of users and potential users will see the benefits of a suggestion without tallying votes.

The real problem is there have been no new primitives added in 18 months and the updates have been overwhelmingly focused on bug fixes and performance issues. Until OutSim announces their intentions for the long term it seems a waste of effort to start asking for still more.

I hope that something big is coming soon... the big features stuff is what we really want; better event timing options, an SDK, some programming add-on like Lua, complete ASM support, more code features, better matrix features in code and in green, better use of modern CPU, alternate OS support, etc.

I don't expect to see them all and I'm not even sure we'll see any. But clearly incremental feature additions are not a priority which I hope indicates the focus is on the big stuff.

It's just been so long with no major advances and no word from the devs so it's tough to stay psych'd about the program.

[mwvdlee]

the big features stuff is what we really want; better event timing options, an SDK, some programming add-on like Lua, complete ASM support, more code features, better matrix features in code and in green, better use of modern CPU, alternate OS support, etc.

But that's the point. Is it really one of those features that is on the top of our list? And more importantly, which is the most pressing issue?
I'm pretty sure everybody has their own set of missing features that are actually showstoppers for their particular ideas. If some of them are common and easy to implement, it's a quick-win situation.

[aliasant]

There have been a lot of good ideas for very small enhancements that should be simple enough to implement.
The big ones Im not so sure we will ever see but the small ones could at least help a bit.

Would be interesting to have a list made up with all feature requests that got more then say 5 votes.
Skip the big ones about the new event system, mac version and similar. Just a list of small, smart enhancements.

[oddson]

My point is there have been dozens of features which would appear to be relatively simple to implement over the past two years and nothing in the last 18 months has actually been added.

I think, or at least hope, that OutSim doesn't want to spend time coding pieces that will need to be recoded for the major changes they're going to implement.

There were hints in the SynthMakerX project that all the primitives have to be reworked to function under their new architecture.

I don't think we're going to see anything new anytime soon unless it's part of a major overhaul.

But I'm just speculating.

[MegaHurtz]

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I hope that something big is coming soon... the big features stuff is what we really want; better event timing options, an SDK, some programming add-on like Lua, complete ASM support, more code features, better matrix features in code and in green, better use of modern CPU, alternate OS support, etc.


Amen Brother!