Hello, I am Michael Zangl. For this year's GSoC I am planing to restructure some core components of josm.
There are currently lots of global references and circular dependencies in this code. Especially Main and MapView have many unwritten implications and do a lot of instanceof. My goal is to make the structure of those more flexible. Starting next week, I will work on moving global state to new classes. In three months, I hope to have restructured the map view classes so that the view component can be used multiple times. I am not planing to implement any new features. Some small ones will come along the way and there might be some minor changes in the visual appearance. The bug report system will be improved by allowing developers to add more data to bug reports than just the stack trace. Some API will change - especially to allow for new features like multiple MapViews. But there will be a compatibility layer for some time so that most old plugins should work without any changes. I try to minimize the impact for users of the latest builds. Every version should be usable. But you might encounter more bugs than usual, especially when using plugins I did not think of. Feel free to file them in the tracker and add me (michael2402) - I will have a look at it. If you are interested in the progress, have a look at the timeline. There are links to all relevant issues: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/AcceptedProjects/JOSM_core Michael Zangl _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev