Paweł Paprota wrote: > 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. :-)
Your own experience is (I'm guessing) open source coding projects, though, not cartography projects. git is really insanely hard to understand if you're not a coder. I'm barely a coder and it boggles my head, every time. I can do three things with git, and for anything else I end up asking Andy or Matt or Tom or someone. Or Google. Whether or not we use git or svn for the Mapnik stylesheet is a question, but not one which I think will have much bearing on the willingness of people with cartography nous to contribute. More important are: - moving from something that cartographers can't understand (XML) to something they might be able to (CSS) - reducing the need for an industrial rendering stack to test changes, and instead being able to prototype on the desktop or via the web cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Status-of-the-Mapnik-stylesheets-tp5735606p5735898.html Sent from the Developer Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
