# Meta: where do feature requests go?
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/meta-where-do-feature-requests-go/14110
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 16, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/meta-where-do-feature-requests-go/14110 "2025-05-16T18:46:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@bmcdonnell-fb](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/bmcdonnell-fb)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/meta-where-do-feature-requests-go/14110/1 "2025-05-16T18:46:41Z")
@brad.king [said](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/feature-requests/407/2) that feature requests can be posted here for discussion, and/or as an issue on the tracker.
OTOH, @ben.boeckel said:
> [@Feature Request: add\_custom\_comand CONFIGURATIONS option](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/feature-request-add-custom-comand-configurations-option/4664/2):
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> Feature requests go to the [issue tracker](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues).
Can someone clarify?
Will [my feature request](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/feature-request-inject-cmakelists-txt-to-add-subdirectory/14108) get due consideration here? And/or should I post an issue?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/craig.scott)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/meta-where-do-feature-requests-go/14110/2 "2025-05-16T22:36:22Z")
For discussing an idea, here in the forum will get more eyeballs and a wider cross-section of users and contributors. It’s a good place to flesh out an idea and gauge how the community feels about it. Once you have a fairly clear picture of the feature you want to request and can describe it concisely, that’s a good time to open a new issue in the issue tracker with your proposal.
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### Author:  [@bmcdonnell-fb](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/bmcdonnell-fb)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/meta-where-do-feature-requests-go/14110/3 "2025-05-28T23:26:27Z")
No one’s commented on [my RFC / proposal / feature request](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/rfc-inject-cmakelists-txt-to-add-subdirectory/14108) yet. How long does it usually take for such posts to get some replies? Do they often get ignored? Is there anything I should be doing to give it more visibility, or make it more palatable?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/craig.scott)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/meta-where-do-feature-requests-go/14110/4 "2025-05-29T22:25:11Z")
Sometimes an idea just doesn’t get traction. There can be a whole range of reasons, some not related to the post at all (e.g. posting when most folks are on vacation). In general though, if no-one responds, that’s maybe a data point that perhaps others don’t find it to be addressing a pain point or providing feature of interest that matters to them. If you’re finding yourself on an island with a problem no-one else seems to have (or very few seem to have), that’s also potentially a data point that perhaps you might want to rethink your project structure or the scenario you’re wanting to achieve. For me personally, I find it is often worthwhile to ask “what’s the happy path that most folks are taking, and how can I make my project more like that”. This applies to using any major tool, not just CMake.
For the particular post of yours that you linked to, Brad has now responded.