On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 23:51 +1000, John Smith wrote: > I was sent a link to this thread on the JOSM dev mailing list: > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2011-January/005185.html
Interesting thread. > ... since those pushing for this change seem to want to make JOSM > difficult to use for anything but OSM allowed sources. This worries me a little. It seems like there are some within the community who are adamant to split the users. It seems some people are trying to do the best they can, to achieve forks within the project, while others are running along behind them trying to repair the damage and lost morale. This wouldnt be such an issue, if those who were pushing to break the project up werent in the (perceived) highest levels of power. When people suggested that these tools might have uses other than for OSM, the response always came back as 'well, fork it and host the project yourself'.. which leads to... > Thankfully the main author of the software seems to want a more > general editor, not just one that works with OSM specific APIs etc. This makes me wonder. Dirk has stated that he does not want the feature implemented, while Frederik has stated that he has already implemented it. Is that not the rudest form of vandalism in OSM (even worse than vandalising a part of the map)? To force someone to take changes to their program because of your position. If an athiest decided to remove any references to religion/churches in JOSM, and forced the community to take their patch, what would happen? Are we expected to just lie down and take it, because we should respect one persons opinion, or should we look at the bigger picture and send OSM in the direction the community wants, rather than the direction a few foundation board members want. So, what happens now? Has Frederik appointed himself as top-dog in the JOSM project, above and beyond the maintainer? What would happen if the maintainer (or someone else following the OSM communities wishes) reverted that patch? David _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
