A few weeks later… I’d say Writing a good feature request is doing a good service. However, there are two points that we keep seeing in new requests, and perhaps it would be good to stress them with a notice at the top, for those who won’t read the entire text:
- Many drafts are written in first person. The authors make them “theirs” in various ways. Referring to “users” or even “you” is much better, and personal preferences or other personal details are not really interesting unless they can be made generic to many.
- Very few explain the problem in the section titled “What problem(s) would this feature resolve?”. Most keep explaining how great the feature requested would be. Specifying the problem a feature request is very useful, even crucial.
What do you think?