Wish List Portlet

The purpose of this portlet is to present the user with a list of issues that are important to resolve for the project.

Again let's start by looking at the competition.

Glassfish

I could not find a page that gave me a list of desired features. It's possible to run a query on the Issue Tracker system but this is not straightforward and can look quite intimidating:

https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/query.cgi

Geronimo

As geronimo uses JIRA they also have the Popular Issues report. They do not present this information on the main website however.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu has the novel idea of bounties:

http://www.ubuntu.com/developers/bounties

These are areas of work which the project offers money for if someone completes it to their satisfaction. We could offer similar incentives, especially schwag for the successful completion of wish list items.

Fedora

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CategoryProposedFedora9

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CategoryProposedFeature

jboss.org - Current

In addition to the JIRA Popular Issues report there is also a TODO Forum that contains a list of desired features or fixes. This acts as a  holding place for people to submit ideas before they are entered as issues into JIRA.

New Design

Because JIRA already includes a Popular Issues report we can simply use this as the wish list. We can show the top 10 issues for a project in a Wish List Portlet together with the number of votes and allow the user to sort them based on issue type and version. For example the JBoss AS project could have:

Wish List

The filter would look as follows:

Clicking on a particular issue should take the user through to the JIRA issue.

We may also wish to have another column that contains an incentive for someone to complete the wish list item, i.e. a JBoss.ORG hat.