[maemo-community] Brainstorm: useful?

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:41, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
>
> Can anyone point to a brainstorm idea which has been successfully
> implemented, or produced an outcome which reflects the benefits of an
> actual, real-world, brainstorm? I'm increasingly forming the opinion
> that brainstorm users often conflate problems and solutions, and the
> whole concept is based around the opinion that everyone's opinion and
> solutions are equal. They aren't: some people design better systems
> than others.

Following the sterling efforts of Henri, Oskari and Quim the new
Brainstorm is up & running. What are people's thoughts on its
usefulness now?

Personally, I'm watching with interest the "Command-line apps in
Extras" Brainstorm:

   http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/command_line_applications_and_extras/

However, I think I'm standing by my sentiments above and before:
>
> Similarly, there's no chance of persuasion and debate. Mailing lists
> are a much more powerful tool, IMHO.

    http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=425046#post425046

> However, if people can point to it as a success story, I'll be very
> happy to be dissuaded of this notion :-)

This still stands :-)

It's a cool tool and a powerful piece of technology, but I'm yet to
see it actually solve a *problem*. Technology for its own sake is
interesting, and funneling pesky enhancement requests out of Bugzilla
may be useful; but when we've got a concrete problem in the community,
is it *really* better than sensible debate resulting in a consensus
drawn out by the Community Council?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

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