Suggest issue

[tonylampada]

I've heard this question a few times:

How do I get my boss to sponsor an issue needed by my company?

FS users should be able to suggest sponsorships to other people (be them FS users or not).

The users experience:

• User clicks "Suggest a sponsorship to someone"
• User fills a new offer form, just like sponsoring a new issue
• User provides a list of emails to whom this sponsorship suggestion must be made, with an optional "suggestion justification message"
• Emails are sent to those people, asking them to sponsor that issue.
• If they bite it, they are redirected to the sopnsor issue form, where they can review their offer before placing it "for real".

Note: the suggestion remains private between the participants. Only "real" offers are made public

An alternative flow:

Instead of suggesting it for someone, also give the user the option to suggest it for everyone.
This would create a "issue-kickstarter" section inside FS. It might be fun to add this too :-)

[henriquebastos]

Cant they just send an email with the FSi (FS issue) link on it? :-P

[tonylampada]

Yeah, I think so.
This is made sense at the time. Now with the "kickstart issue" feature I guess we can close this as "won't fix"