I somewhat tried to elaborate that in the initial post but let me try to rephrase it.
The purpose is a different one:
- Forum → exploration & discussion
- Trello → (pre selection), prioritization & overview
The ideation process should happen in the OGS Forum (or other channels like Discord, Reddit or whereever else people are active).
But these ideas often end up being unfocused, repeated, fuzzy, lost in the ether, not clearly prioritized, and we lose track of them. They come up are discussed, then nothing happens, they disappear, and then 10 months later someone posts the same idea again.
A Trello Roadmap would show all ideas and their popularity at a glance. I encourage you to look at the Barotrauma example I linked above. That said the Barotrauma Trello was more active when the game was still being very actively developed. Now since the game is finally released and activity has died down somewhat so has the action on the Trello but I think it’s still a good example.
Trello is not good for in depth discussions but for transparency, community interaction and providing an overview. I think it would enable the community to get a deeper inside into what’s going on short and long term on OGS.
Few concrete examples and thoughts
- I consider myself to be a relatively frequent OGS user (although I’m a little on and off with Go) but I have absolutely no idea what is currently being worked on or what is planned for the rest of the year or next year
- Was the sound change intentional, is the community happy with it, will we ever talk about it again or is a thread with 10 users and 14 likes just not enough backlash? Did anything change about the sound of stones?
- What about the chat issue, will we forget about it again, how many people actually want a fix? Private chat blocks game chat
- What about the proposal to change the behavior of the First move timer for white in correspondence tournaments
- What about the Feature Request: SGF Comments with four upvotes. Is that being considered? New people interested in that idea will have a hard time expressing their support because the last comment was over a month ago so the thread has gone to Valhalla by now