How To Request Features

Steps to follow

Ensure it's a meaningful improvement
- Was this improvement ever proposed or discussed? (Search in Google or Redmine)
- Is there already a way to achieve a similar result?
- Would it benefit many people? Can you find cases in existing code where it would be useful?
- You need to show a convincing example for the feature with Ruby code (see Background below)
Think about it
- What's a good name?
- What exact arguments does it accept?
- What does it return?
- Any risk of incompatibility?
Write it up
- Use a good title: if title is not so good, the ticket will be ignored
- State how the current situation can be improved
- Make a concise but complete proposal
- Address objections you can foresee
Create a Feature Request on http://bugs.ruby-lang.org and follow through
- Open one issue per feature request!

Making good sections

Good sections help us to understand your proposal.

Example:

Abstract
Background (problem, what is problem you are )
- "Problem Statement" or "Real Use Case" is the most important information. We usually verify the proposed feature actually solve the problem and is the best solution for it
- This should include a concrete example using Ruby code of how you would use the new feature, this is very important and may be the only part being read during a developers meeting.
Proposal
Implementation (if you have. submit with implementation will help us which is feasible or not)
Evaluation of your implementation (performance, usability and so on)
Discussion (remaining points which we need to consider, pros. and cons. for other approach, and so on)
Summary

(same as academic papers)

will help us.

Just ideas are difficult to consider (if it seems not valuable).

Template (copy and fill every sections):

# Abstract
# Background
# Proposal
# Implementation
# Evaluation
# Discussion
# Summary