Danny Danzi
Not to stir up a hornets nest, but I have to ask you guys your opinion. What are your thoughts on this whole feature request thing? To me, I have always felt it was a way to shut us up. In all my years of putting in requests both as an individual as well as in groups of people, not once has anything I've ever asked for been implemented. It sincerely makes me feel:
A. We're listening but we don't agree
B. Sorry, we'd have to re-write the entire program for that
C. Give 'em the feature request thing to shut them up to make them feel they matter but don't implement anything unless it's mind-blowing
I have seen the feature request thing work just recently. There was a small uprising here calling for some sort or wrapper technology that would let us put any VST in the Pro Channel. As we've seen, CW listened and it's in X2. But generally I agree with you, Danny. I have a couple of ideas I'd dearly love to see put into Sonar, but I have so little faith in the system I can't be bothered. To write these up properly would take several hours and I just don't feel like wasting the time.
I proposed once in one of these threads that someone at CW post a blog entry about what CW looks for in a good feature request. For example, does a lengthy request automatically put it in the reject pile, even when the content is all relevant? I have no idea. If I had some writer's guidelines, I might be more willing to give a shot at communicating my suggestions.
It would also be most interesting to learn how feature requests get evaluated. I believe there was a blog post by CW that explained how bug reports were channeled through their system. It would be more than a little fascinating to learn how things work on the feature request front.