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Clarify between Unmet Hours, Github issues and User Voice sites

For Openstudio, there are now three places where one can post, and I fear this is confusing to many, me included.

My understanding, in broad lines, is as follows:

  • Github issues: for bugs in the software
  • User Voice: for feature requests
  • Unmet Hours: for everything else not covered above, including but not limited to getting help doing something

Thing is, the GitHub issues still have "feature request" as a tag, which is leading to some confusion. The user voice site also doesn't appear to have a ton of traction which would make it tempting to post somewhere else so it gets noticed.

Can you clarify how and when to use each of these sites?

Maybe an example would help in illustrating the problem...

I'm getting increasingly frustrated by the fact that the PAT tool removes all design alternatives when you add a new measure group.

Should I consider this:

  • A bug and post it to Github?

    Rationale: it makes absolutely no sense to me that adding a new group would delete the existing design alternatives.

  • As a feature request and post it to User Voice?

    Rationale: it'd like this to be turned off in future version, I'd like the PAT tool to be smarter about this.

  • As getting help and post it to Unmet Hours?

    Rationale: is it possible to turn off this behavior or to use a workaround?