On 9 February 2016 at 07:11, Christoffer Holmstedt <christoffer.holmstedt@...400...> wrote:

2016-02-08 13:37 GMT+01:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...2179......>:

On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 11:44 +0100, Sebastian Zartner wrote:
> > I'll pass it along to the team. We don't discuss product decisions
> or timelines publicly like that, so I can't share more information
> about why this particular subset was chosen. I do hope it can be
> expanded in the future, though.

That's the biggest difference between open source projects and
proprietary ones. Not just the code freedom, but the willingness to be
open about product development, internal thoughts, attempts and
failures. Keeping things hidden from customers isn't healthy IMO[1]

I'm not really happy about any of these solutions to be honest.

But we should keep looking and testing different possible solutions.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

[1] Something Canonical got wrong a lot.

"Any of these solutions [...]"...Do you mean both Github and Gitlab?

Yea, keeping product development plans behind closed door leaves users in a sort of powerlessness state. You don't get any response about the future, if there is any hope at all for the feature to be implemented nor have you the ability to fix it yourself due to closed source.

I need to add that every request I made against GitHub so far (~25) got answered within one or two days and some of my suggestions were already implemented in the meantime. So, at least I have the feeling that they are somewhat listening to their users.

Having said that, of course the GitHub team never promises anything (and they always say so in their responses), so you don't have any influence on what get's implemented.

Sebastian