Brainstorming/Guidelines

These are the guidelines for submitting the feature requests and ideas to the MyPaint wiki. These guidelines were created because many of the brainstorming on the MyPaint wiki is (at the moment - January 2010) a lot less useful than it could be. In particular we are missing the following things for some requests, which are critical to a good feature request.

Structure
Try using MediaWiki syntax that is meant to create some structure on the page. Do not just use random bold or italic tags to make your request look different than the rest!

The suggestion/idea (when its hierarchical location in the page has been determined) should looks something like this:

This kind of form can be generated by using the Idea template.

Comments/Discussion
Do not comment the request or idea on the same page! MediaWiki supports special discussion pages that are designed just for that. On the top of the page there is a discussion tab/link that takes you to the discussion page for that page. If the discussion page had not been created yet you will be asked to create it. When writing comments try to follow the same structure that exists on the main page. Post replies to someone else's comment by tabulating them using colon characters in front of every line. Do not forget to sign your comments with ~ .

Also consider the following guidelines


 * Unpolished images are also welcome when trying to present some mock-up functionality. The brainstorming area is not some kind of fancy gallery so every image/sketch is fine as long as it is meaningful for the suggestion.
 * No roadmap/priority discussion please, except if you are implementing it.
 * If you don't get any feedback, you can try the IRC channel.