i see this quite often and it's usually a good indicator that the project is going to go nowhere. non-developers post on a users mailing list about an idea, so

i see this quite often and it's usually a good indicator that the project is going to go nowhere. non-developers post on a users mailing list about an idea, some other non-developer joins in with "hey i'll setup a wiki!" and someone else chimes in with "i'll make a logo and a website!" in the end you have all this planning and meta-development for nothing, and no code ever gets written. look on sourceforge and see how many projects are in pre-alpha/planning stages with no code uploaded and how long they've been there. a common phrase in the openbsd developer community is "shut up and hack." a developer's time is much better spent writing code and showing it to someone than writing up a technical spec about how something should quite possibly maybe some day be if we're lucky and follow the roadmap exactly.