What we definitely need is better notifications on new feature requests and bug reports
What do we need other than finer granularity, perhaps? I'm signed up for alerts on the existing SDM and get e-mailed notices of bug reports and feature requests. Of course the wording to enable this - "I'm interested
in this package" - isn't clear, many folks probably don't realize this turns on e-mail alerts!
Since it is possible to comment on BAFS it's already possible to converse to about them, though not quite as slickly as the bboard UI perhaps. The truth is that most bugs aren't very interesting conversation topics, and most features get raised in the bboards rather
than the SDM ...