> But even more helpful would be if you listed all scenarios you can think of where this would be helpful, even ones that are not useful to you, but might be to others.
The danger with this is encouraging overengineering. It's easy, particularly if someone else is going to be doing the work, to say, "Maybe someone out there might someday want to do X, Y, or Z"; causing a maintainer to put a whole lot of effort and extra complexity into their code for use cases which nobody uses.
In fact, when only a single person wants a feature, there's a similar risk, that I'll put a whole lot of extra effort and complexity into the code for a use case which only one person thinks they want; and that after it's implemented, they decide they don't like it and go somewhere else anyway.
That's why I didn't understand why he considered "I would also use this feature" comments to be rude or unhelpful. I would think knowing that at least two (or three or four) people wanted a feature would be helpful feedback in knowing what kinds of things were worth adding extra complexity.
Perhaps in his mind they took the tone of, "Hey yeah, we're all waiting for you to do this work for us for free; what's the hold-up? Get cracking!" Which of course would be a bad attitude; but looking at the exact thing he quoted, I'd say that's more about what he's reading into it than what the commenter actually said.
The danger with this is encouraging overengineering. It's easy, particularly if someone else is going to be doing the work, to say, "Maybe someone out there might someday want to do X, Y, or Z"; causing a maintainer to put a whole lot of effort and extra complexity into their code for use cases which nobody uses.
In fact, when only a single person wants a feature, there's a similar risk, that I'll put a whole lot of extra effort and complexity into the code for a use case which only one person thinks they want; and that after it's implemented, they decide they don't like it and go somewhere else anyway.
That's why I didn't understand why he considered "I would also use this feature" comments to be rude or unhelpful. I would think knowing that at least two (or three or four) people wanted a feature would be helpful feedback in knowing what kinds of things were worth adding extra complexity.
Perhaps in his mind they took the tone of, "Hey yeah, we're all waiting for you to do this work for us for free; what's the hold-up? Get cracking!" Which of course would be a bad attitude; but looking at the exact thing he quoted, I'd say that's more about what he's reading into it than what the commenter actually said.