[Bf-committers] Enhancment submittal

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Usually it's a combination of bribing, begging, being supportive and  
inspiring!

But honestly; there's far too many enhancements or requests compared to  
the amount of time developers have to handle it. It wouldn't be fair to  
make an official "feature request tracker" since we cannot maintain  
that.

However, there's a couple of ways you can do this anyway:

- make a clear description of the request, and post that in the  
appropriate forum on blender.org. If the request is more than just a  
small tweak, make a full webpage about it on the wiki of blender.org  
too.

- A good request has three components; a description of the problem,  
the proposed end-user solution, and a proposed implementation. In many  
cases only the last is mentioned, which makes requests difficult to  
understand. Especially a good problem anyisis or example can give good  
clues for surprisingly efficient alternative solutions.

- find out who maintains the code related to the feature, and contact  
that person (in private or via mailing list or forums). Especially when  
it is part of the scheduled maintenance anyway, things can be added  
quickly.

- also: check if the request you have is related to a scheduled  
project. Typically you can find out about that on this list, or the  
weekly meeting notes in wiki. Most projects also start with a wiki  
page, so search on the wiki if this was already been reported or  
scheduled.

- it helps too when such a request is related to a real project you're  
doing... if your request solves a true creation bottleneck, the reward  
of fixing that is quite evident and motivating for a developer.  
Requests like "please add better intersection code" doesn't fall in  
that category. :)

-Ton-




On 20 Aug, 2006, at 2:49, Tron Thomas wrote:

> What is the official, formal way for someone to submit an enhancement  
> or feature request for Blender?
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> Bf-committers at projects.blender.org
> http://projects.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
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