On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: > We must expect many people to download a new JOSM version over the next > few weeks because they know they'll need it to work with API 0.6. Any > features we want to force onto users, now is the time ;-)
Serverstats currently indicate following: Last stable (1504) == 13% Current stable (1515) == 21% Last two latest == 10% Old versions == 44% This means more than half of the users use recent versions. And what I like too is that most users use the tested versions and no longer the latest. And as I show stats here lets look at the languages as well: 52% use de 17% use en 7% use en_GB 7% use fr 3% use ru And only < 10% of JOSM users use still Java 1.5. > BTW sometimes I think that we should have a mechanism that disables JOSM > versions if they are too old. Something like a special MOTD code that, > if a JOSM version older than X connects, sends back a message saying > "please don't use this software any more". I would not use that feature > in everyday operation but every now and then you discover a bug where > you think: Hey, this is dangerous, people could break a lot of things > through this bug. I think it should already be possible to display a special message inside the StartUp page when old versions are used. Writing a Trac-Plugin to analyze the HTTP headers would be required for this. Currently versions < 1510 do not get a StartUp page at all (or probably some sort of an error). I hope that helps to let them upgrade to a more recent version. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
