Duncan wrote:
> BTW, I tried looking for rules to do something with the scores,
> but that's missing in >.90. There has been some discussion of
> doing things that require rules (and I was explaining how they
> worked <.90). However, as I've seen no hints from you on it,
> I'm guessing they won't be back until after 1.0, correct?
I suspect that Rules only has a few useful options not covered
by scoring. My evidence is the *zero* bugzilla tickets asking
for any rules features to return, and the very few requests on
pan-users, the only one I can recall is deleting low-scoring articles.
Maybe we're better off with a "delete low-scoring articles" setting.
This makes me think of the 50+ feature requests filed in bugzilla
during Pan's hiatus. Over half went literally 3-4 years without
a single person seconding the request. Each of those would have
been a lot of work for very little (maybe a single user!) payoff.
What about requests made on pan-users, I hear you ask.
Yes, pan-users is VERY important for hammering out ideas as a group,
for short-term bug reports (i.e., 0.98's build errors), for Q&A,
and fun chit-chat. But mailing lists are bad for request tracking.
How many of you remember, for example, the May 16 request to give
the header pane focus when we load a group? I'd forgotten about it,
even though at the time I said I liked the idea. :)
Without any further ado, here are The Four Canonical Ways To Get
Your Feature Included in Pan (tm):
(1) Write it yourself, create a bugzilla ticket, and attach a patch.
I recommend this method very highly. ;)
(2) Perennial feature requests on pan-users (such as
multiserver and "fix the multipart yenc image display!")
will eventually get in.
(3) Hammer out an idea for a feature on pan-users,
then file a bugzilla request and tell other pan-users about
it so that they can second, third, or fourth it.
(4) File a buzilla request that I like enough to implement
even if nobody seconds it. A few features are like this,
but more often these are bug reports and small tweaks.
I hope this clears up any confusion.
cheers,
Charles
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