Ubuntu developers asks users for tips

 

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By Matthew Sparkes

Posted on 29 Feb 2008 at 08:53

Ubuntu developers have launched a new website where users can suggest and vote for new features they would like to see implemented.

On the Ubuntu Brainstorm site, users can submit ideas for fixes, patches or new features, and vote on existing proposals, similar to the way that news stories are voted for on sites such as Digg and Reddit.

The most popular ideas on the site will be implemented by developers, steering the project in a direction dictated by its users.

The idea bears a striking resemblance to Dell's IdeaStorm site. A suggestion on that site that the company should sell Linux PCs proved extremely popular, which led to Dell launching several Linux machines.

The most popular suggestion, with 1123 votes, is to fix the hibernate and suspend features for notebook users.

"This is a big bother for me. I try to suspend my laptop when I go to and from class, and roughly half of the time when resuming from suspend I just get a black screen and have to hold the power button and reboot, losing everything that I had open," comments user g33kph4c3.