On Mon, 10 May 2010, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > But as a first resort, I'd encourage you to look at improving your > presentation. I have JOSM 3094 and all that it tells me about upgrading > is this (as the third item on the splash screen): > > "Active version '3094' should be updated! The current stable snapshot is > 3208 and 3227 is the unstable development version." > > ...which is a really obscure statement likely to elicit "meh, whatever" > from most non-developer users. What's an "Active version '3094'" when > it's at home? What's a "stable snapshot" - a photograph of a horse? (And > why the passive voice? Computer says it "should be updated". Well, jolly > good, Mr Computer, go and update it then.) > > If, instead, it said as the _first_ thing on the page: > > "You are using an old version of JOSM with known bugs. Click here to > download the latest version. This old version will stop working in five > days."
I added a secondary more visible version check notice like you suggested. Have a look at the start page yourself: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/StartupPageSource Improvements and suggestions welcome, it is a wiki. > then maybe we would get somewhere. But the fact that you say "We still > have a large number of old version (6 to 12 months old) floating around" > shows that the current approach isn't working. Nah. It suggests, that JOSM really is stable. The pressure to install new versions is low, as old versions work really good (usually :-) >> Well, Potlatch deleted every German name in Saxonia for one user when he >> entered the Sorbian names. Was a lot of work to fix this as well (as he >> did do multiple changesets). I still found two missing ones yesterday, >> after nearly half a year. > > If you can cite changeset/object ids I'll look into it. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3349249 But as neither I nor the original author could reproduce it, I think it was already fixed. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
