Hi,
On 11/13/2012 11:36 PM, Tom MacWright wrote:
There is no
way to 'just do it' until the style is actually maintained in GitHub,
actually welcomes contributions, and has active maintainers.
Point 3 ("active maintainers") is undoubtedly true.
Point 2 ("welcome contributions") is slightly difficult with the style
as we do expect a certain amount of cartographic consistency. The Mapnik
style is not something where people can scratch their personal itch by
adding an icon or dash pattern for whatever they want rendered and then
believe it will be added just like that; they ought to talk to the
maintainers (see point 3) before. - This sounds rather obvious; you
wouldn't change the design of a software package maintained by someone
else and not talk to them before. But because it is so easy to e.g. add
an icon, people are tempted to just "fire off" a patch and this later
turns out to be a waste of time because it doesn't fit the overall concept.
So yes, welcome contributions, but maybe one should have a "so you want
to contribute to the style" document that suggests certain processes.
Point 1 is purely a matter of taste; people are "just doing it" with
trac as well (and suffering from 2/3 there too).
Bye
Frederik
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