Terminology of proposing "solutions" to "ideas" doesn't make sense

[Endolith]

The previous Brainstorm was about posting your "ideas", which is fine.

The new Brainstorm allows multiple users to post "solutions", though, which doesn't make sense in the context of ideas. For instance, you are asked to fill in an "Idea solution".

But we propose "solutions" to "problems", not to "ideas". The entire problem + solution is an "idea". "Necessity is the mother of invention", as they say.

The "idea description" should instead be stated as a problem you are trying to fix, not as an idea. Instead of describing your "idea rationale", it should be called a "problem", and you should describe what necessitated your idea; the problem that caused you to have this idea.

Then you can propose a solution to this problem, along with your rationale, and other users can propose alternative solutions and rationales to this problem, which will then all be voted on.

See http://devel.ideatorrent.org/idea/10225/ for an example. First I state a problem, then I state a possible solution, along with my rationale for that solution. Then Auzy proposes a different solution.

[Sayak Banerjee (sayakb-deactivatedaccount)]

So in a nutshell, are you proposing to rename "Rationale" to "problem"?

[Endolith (endolith)]

Yes, but change the wording to make it follow this pattern everywhere?

[Sayak Banerjee (sayakb-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you please post here the link to the idea on Ubuntu Brainstorm? If the idea is/becomes popular enough to be considered, we would surely make this modification.

[Endolith (endolith)]

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9907/