Brainstorm

I've understood that maemo.org brainstorm is a place for discussing different solutions for problems present in Maemo and related devices. What I have seen (both here and in other projects) is that people suggest a solution as an idea and then the same solution as a solution for the idea (or else no solution at all as the idea is the solution). How could maemo.org brainstorm help people file problems as problems?

NOTE: This idea is borrowed almost verbatim from http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19991/ and is not claimed to be an original idea on my part.  See also http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9907/.

Reference Discussion at t.m.o: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30395

The Extras Testing Marathon (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33164) got me thinking: we need to improve member awareness of and participation in community events.

Discuss at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33705

There was a big discussion for Bug 5315 3 Mobile SIM card rejected @ https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5315 regarding the disclosure of the latest firmware for testing this bug.

It's true that open source doesn't mean you must publish everything, but it does defeat the main point of open source development, which is to do with an open and involve contributions from the community.

It would be ideal to distribute future testing firmwares to trusted contributors in different continents to speed up the testing and verifying issues has been fixed, by doing so, it will significantly improve the turn-around time for the release of new firmwares, at the same time speed up and improve development.

Application requests doesn't have single place where one could see requests, state of the project (has somebody assigned to port/write an app allready etc)

This will probably lead to talk.maemo.org flooded with application requests. One thread per one request. (Waste of resource imo and makes searches etc harder because of the noise those threads create)