How long would you design a period? A month?
We'd tailor the time periods to Toady's needs.
And what happens with monthly winners?
The results will be forwarded to Toady.
Might be a bit boring if the same top10 suggestions win every month. Maybe remove them and have an end-year voting of all top suggestions?
Yeah, you pointed out a good issue. Toady will probably implement 0 - 2 suggestions, depending on difficulty, priority, workload, schedule and so on.
Perhaps we could remove the suggestions that received most of the votes (sure winners) and recycle the others.
End-year voting doesn't seem necessary, except Toady would explicitly want that. I see the winners as suggestions that the people REALLY want in, sooner or later. And so, they would be permanently added to Toady's TODO list, if he would agree to this.
I feel the nomination phase is also important here.
Do we exclude the suggestions that fared poorly in the previous voting rounds?
Do we set up some rules for nominating a suggestion (i.e. the suggestions MUST be well defined, not be too broad, not overlap with others, have a descriptive title and a concise summary...)?
Assuming we'll impose a limit... how do we decide which suggestions to put in, once the amount of suggestions exceeds the limit?