[gdal-dev] Wiki whist list page ?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

Seeing Jukka's effort those last days to clean dust from GDAL Trac tickets 
(folks, please give him a huge thank, as this is one of the most tedious task 
possible !), I was wondering if enhancement tickets shouldn't be migrated to a 
single, and structured, page, especially when there are really under the whish 
list form, without any proposed patch or data, where the ticket system doesn't 
bring much value.
I'm not sure this will solve or improve anything either. Just the feeling that 
those enhancement tickets are burried forever (and sometimes ideas expressed 
in those tickets have been finally implemented independantly), so I was 
wondering about an alternative. At least a few issues I can anticipate:
- will users know that this page exists and use it appropriately ? (e.g. we 
wouldn't want bug reports to go here, or would we ?)
- can we assume that they will be willing/able to edit a wiki page ?

On the plus side, it could be a nice entry point for people who want to start 
contributing something (GSoC students) and don't have precise ideas (although 
your own ideas are generally a better motivation than the ones of somebody 
else)

So here's my proposed skeleton :
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/WishList

Another variation would be to keep it just as a skeleton and use Trac requests 
by keywords to fill the various categories (like done in 
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ECW and similar pages for example)

Even

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