On 11/14/2012 05:34 PM, Michal Migurski wrote:
Why Trac has nowhere near such an effect I couldn't say but it is
just the truth that once you put something on Github, people are
*much* more likely to contribute.
[citation needed]
My statement was based on my own experience with open source projects.
I cannot be bothered to find some hard evidence that "Github makes
people much likely to contribute" though, it's just a fact. :-)
The stylesheet is also an organically-grown system, and as Frederik
pointed out it's not a good idea to just accept pull requests
willy-nilly from anyone who wants to see their pet tag rendered. Not
to mention the ease with which a punishing, unsustainable Postgres
query might be introduced, or potential inconsistencies in osm2pgsql
style column mappings across systems.
Sure, the same is true for any software project really... accepting
everything is not a good idea as it leads very quickly to feature creep
and unmaintainable code base.
However, this is getting a bit off-topic. I concede the point that
Github vs Trac is not the most important discussion in the world while
there's no activity with current 400+ issues.
Not sure to whom I'm addressing this statement but... I'm involved in a
number of OSM related things at the moment but if there is anything I
could do to help with the current Mapnik/style situation then don't
hesitate to contact me privately.
I can do what I can to help with anything except for the esthetic
aspects as I'm no artist :-)
BTW, it feels like more and more people are asking about the main style
development, hopefully some kind of critical mass is building and things
will move forward soon.
Paweł
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