Suggestions

As with most open-source software, there is no dedicated staff to take customer suggestions and incorporate them into the product. Suggestions should take the form of volunteering to do work, as opposed to requesting that some one else do work, because there is no one else. Suggestions should be of a productive, positive nature, such as "I want to add feature X to the software" not "You should add feature X to the software". Suggestions involve performing some type of work, such as defining an interface, finding a bug, volunteering to add a feature.

The discussion forums should be used to address problems and suggest improvements that could be made. People may have good ideas, but not have the time or skills to implement them by themselves. The most important thing when making a suggestion is to have a plan. Even if your contribution is only to manage a process, take responsibility for your suggestions. Thus, if you are interested in having a new debug type but are not a software developer, you could suggest the definition for this new debug type and give a rationale for why it would be useful. If developers reply that they are interested, you could then work with them to define requirements, help with testing and so forth.

The more that people contribute their time and expertise, the better the Moyoman software will be. Try to make suggestions in the discussion forums that are positive and that suggest a solution as well as identifying a problem. In addition to making proposals, read what other people suggest, and volunteer to help them if someone has an idea that you are interested in working on.