Hi Igor, On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Igor Podolskiy < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brett, hi Osmosis developers, > > > I just finished having a play with OSMembrane. Colour me impressed :-) >> It's a great little app, and provides a nicely polished user experience. >> > thanks - it's great you like it :) > > > I hope development on the tool remains active, or that it at least >> continues to be maintained. It should be a great complement to Osmosis. >> > Yes, at least we will try to - it's not like there aren't any ideas to > further improve OSMembrane. There are probably enough features to implement > and bugs to fix for months if not years ;) > > A couple of days ago I discussed the future of this project with Jakob, > Tobias and Christian - the original authors - and we decided that we will > gradually transfer the maintainer role for OSMembrane over to me in the next > weeks as I seem to have more time and resources for this and, most > importantly, I need this tool much more than them ;) And as none of us wants > OSMembrane go to sleep, this seemed the obvious thing to do. > Sounds great. > > Development mainly takes place at http://osmembrane.de/ currently. In the > last couple days I've been working on boring infrastructure-like things like > the Ant build file, but I'm almost done, and I look forward to "real work" > on it - fixing bugs and implementing features, that is. > > So - yes, OSMembrane is not dead, is not planning to be dead, stay tuned > for new releases. Bug reports, feature suggestions, patches and any kind of > feedback is very welcome. > > Since we are on osmosis-dev here: one of the improvements I thought of in > the middle term would be integrating OSMembrane a little tighter with > Osmosis, for example using Osmosis as a library instead of just generating > command lines and reflecting over the classes to determine the list of > available tasks. However, as far as I can estimate, this might require some > work on Osmosis itself, too, so it needs a little more thought. > > So now the question is quite generic: what do you think of the general idea > - is it worth it? Or is there some kind of requirement which opposes such an > integration that I am unaware of? > I don't have any objection in principle. Although obviously I'd need to know what kind of changes you need to make ;-) I have tried to make Osmosis suitable for use as a library though so I'm hoping there won't be any major issues. Cheers, Brett
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