Hi,
On 04/19/13 08:28, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
At the moment anyone trying to run Potlatch on
a Flash-free machine gets links to download Flash
and to the list of editors on the wiki. Could we
add a link to edit the map without Flash or any
other setup using iD once we put it on the editing
menu?
TBH I don't see a whole lot of reason not to move iD into prime (default)
position after some minimal time - say, two weeks - of checking that it
doesn't catastrophically break stuff in real-world, second-on-the-menu
usage.
I think the situation was not exactly comparable when Potlatch started
but I would like to add a caveat; Potlatch did have quite a number of
limitations plus a couple of bugs when it started and while these
weren't considered "catastrophically breaking stuff" they had enough
undesirable side effects that many people have a very negative view of
Potlatch to this day, and (especially in the German community) blaming
Potlatch for every problem that mappers cause was almost a knee-jerk
reaction for a long time.
So yes, it probably doesn't hurt the project if you roll out iD to the
masses after "some minimal time" but if due to some unforeseen problem
(or problematic interaction of users with the software) too many people
break things with iD, there is a risk of acquiring a bad reputation
which sticks even after all problems have been removed.
Bye
Frederik
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