[Elecraft] Fwd: Re: Tracking Elecraft Feature Requests

[Joe Stone (KF5WBO)]

> It's important that we have visibility not only into features in the 
> pipeline, but also proposed features which have been rejected. 

Why?

[js] {hypothetically} I have an idea for a new feature, P3 mouse support. 
Before proposing the feature on the Elecraft mailing list, I first go to the
Elecraft feature / defect tracking system and search for "mouse".  I find a
feature called, "Mouse-n-Click QSY".  I see the feature was created on
December 16, 2011 by Dave Perry (N4QS).  According to the feature
description, Dave replied to a thread titled "P3SVGA - Coming soon" authored
by Eric Swartz (WA6HHQ).  Dave replied, "SVGA display looks great.  Will we
also have point and click capability with a mouse?"  I further discover the
feature has been closed with the disposition, "The P3 doesn’t have the MIPS
to sample IQ, process the 1024-point FFT, update the displays (spectrum and
waterfall), field remote-control commands, … and position a marker based on
the delta-X field in a mouse HID descriptor.”  Oh well, it was a great idea. 
But I see due to technical limitations, the P3 isn't capable of mouse
support.

Yes Joe, why should you be privvy to proprietary Elecraft information?

[js] We're not talking about proprietary information.  We're talking about
features and defects raised by the Elecraft user community.  We're talking
about the same features and defects discussed on this mailing list every
day.  The same system may track "top-secret" features which aren't exposed
to the public.  The system may serve to track internally discovered defects
which aren't exposed to the public (e.g., defects corresponding to an
unreleased firmware version).  Even publicly-visible features and defects
will have some fields and attributes which aren't exposed to the public
(e.g., assigned engineer, effort estimate, test plan, ...).  This is all
standard, vanilla stuff.




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