Heads-up: Feature requests are moving!

Feature Requests
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Hey everyone :wave:

We’ve opened a new spot for feature requests:

:point_right: home-assistant · Discussions · GitHub

The current Feature Requests section here on the forums will be locked soon. No new topics or replies will be possible.

Over time, feature requests have shown up in all kinds of places, including this forum. But let’s be honest: this section has turned into one big, mostly unorganized bucket. There’s no structure, almost no labels, no categorization. Only search can help, and that makes it tough for contributors and developers to actually do something with those ideas.

We’re now centralizing everything in one place that fits better with how we work: GitHub Discussions.

Why GitHub Discussions?
• Easier to upvote and sort through ideas
• We can link requests directly to PRs and commits
• It supports categories and labels, so devs can quickly find what’s relevant
• Plus, we’ve added workflows and automations to help with labeling, spotting duplicates, and keeping things nicely organized

If you’ve made a request here that’s still relevant, feel free to repost it over there. Good ideas deserve visibility, and this helps make that happen.

…/Frenck

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Genuine question:
What do we do about issues we raise on GitHub that no-one (dev wise) has seen or allocated etc?

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Doesn’t this move significantly raise the bar for HA’s target audience (i.e. non-tech savvy users) to interact with the devs on feature requests?

If users can’t figure things out past the most very basic things in HA I think they would have a hard time figuring out how to use github.

Is there going to be some …thing… to let users know where to post those FR’s if there’s no forum section for it?

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You wait until someone does.

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Forum section isn’t getting removed. It will get archived/readonly. This post is stickied and provides the link.

It may. However it will be way easier for contributors to sort and find feature requests for their integration. This also paves the way for notifications to code owners when a new feature request comes in.

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What happens to the frontend feature discussions? Do they stay where they are or are also getting moved?

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thanks, @petro.

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These are already on Github

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Does that mean there will be a hard cut-off/purge? Or will you migrate requests that fit into the roadmap, even if the original poster doesn’t copy things over themselves?

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As a side question: are there any tangible numbers on how “successful” the feature request section in the forum was over the years? As in: how many of the requests actually made it into HA over time? And if so, what was the usual time from someone posting it to go-live? And from the ones that made it, how many made it as a dedicated effort vs being solved “on the side” by another feature that was worked on? Would give a nice insight into the process as a whole

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I it’s a hard cutoff, anyone can move a FR.

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No tangible numbers. The new system will have those metrics.

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Downvote?
I realize it’s a topic of its own but it is helpful in its core to know the difference between 20 upvotes or 20 upvotes and 100 downvotes.

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you’re moving, but not bringing along the furniture?

as in, forcing everyone to redo their work they put in the existing FR’s here in the community? Please tell me that is not the case, and that some automatic import was done?

btw the Frontend Discussion section home-assistant/frontend · Discussions · GitHub remains as is? As there is now also a frontend section in the new home-assistant Dashboards Cards · Discussions · GitHub it is rather confusing where to go now

doesnt look promising… given the amount of work we’ve all put in Discussions in the Frontend section

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Something like that isn’t feasible. I ported 1 over yesterday, took me about 6 minutes as I had to properly categorize it and fill the information out appropriately (which many current FRs do not have). We’d need to incorporate an AI of some sorts and then have someone manually correct what the AI got wrong. Or someone would have to manually port each FR 1 by 1. Anyone is welcome to do this for any existing FR, would you like to start?

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But in a different place. My question is exactly whether that will remain.

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that is just plain silly.
We have a huge list of valid open FR’s, many of those carefully written, and with a lot of response.

Asking the community to redo all of that is identical to saying they no longer exist, there is a clean slate from now on, and you’re welcome to write it all up again…
Unless the current FR section here in the community is still worked on by the team. (which I didnt read is not the case, which still gives some hope)

If not, I couldnt think of a bigger disservice to the community than simply closing it down/ignoring that great source of ideas for Home Assistant 's feature set.

Last paragraph in the opening post here makes me fear that’s the case.

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Sorry, it’s moving. When it does, this category will be archived. Just like the old WTHs.

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I personally prefer the new structured approach, but I understand why people will be upset about the existing FRs. That said, there probably is a lot of defunct FRs too. The new forms don’t require an unreasonable amount of info. I think it should be fairly easy to get an AI bot to write the new sections from existing FRs, including any updates from within the topic. Many of the FRs I’ve seen weren’t that clear anyway, or changed direction with more info, so rewriting them is beneficial in that case.

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