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On this post: Closing an inactive feature request?

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looks like an excellent tag to me, but then what is the point of the ?

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  • Change main, change SE, but never change yourself... (referencing meta)
    – Zizouz212
    Jul 23, 2015 at 12:32
  • For those who don't understand, I'm referencing two downvotes to this discussion question.
    – Zizouz212
    Jul 29, 2015 at 21:58
  • For three downvotes, and a single upvote... Have I asked something wrong?
    – Zizouz212
    Jul 30, 2015 at 16:38
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    I guess people think there's a use case for distinguishing questions about [feature-requests] specifically from general [issue-tracking] questions? I'm not 100% sold on the usefulness of the distinction, but it's not a totally crazy idea, either.
    – apsillers Mod
    Jul 31, 2015 at 18:20
  • I was just awfully confused about the tag, and I'm interested in hearing any thoughts, or ideas as to what it's purpose will be, as well as it's rationale for creation. That said, thank you @apsillers for your thoughts :D
    – Zizouz212
    Jul 31, 2015 at 21:32

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As a maintainer of several free software projects I frequently receive feature requests through our project's issue tracker system.

Dealing with feature requests is different from dealing with bug reports and pull-requests (the two other main type of issues that appear). I really would love to see questions that would help maintainers such as myself learn how to better deal with feature requests (examples: how and when to reject or oblige, how to monetize on feature requests, how to motivate the users to contribute to feature requests, etc.)

While the question linked to by the OP could do with some improvement (something that did not happen), I hope to see more of these questions, so my opinion is that we should let this tag live.

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