<div dir="ltr">Ever since 2012, in the second commit ever, "Not breaking other people's data" has been one of the three clearly stated public design goals of iD.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/commit/22fab3eb1d259fe73d3e1498df1ca0e07c613f87">https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/commit/22fab3eb1d259fe73d3e1498df1ca0e07c613f87</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Jo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:winfixit@gmail.com" target="_blank">winfixit@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>We have been saying this from the very beginning, so it should have been taken into account right from the very start of development of iD.<br><br></div>Don't break other contributor's data should have been among the initial design goals. Don't bother the user with dialogs when they're about to break something should not be a design goal at all.<br><br></div>Odd that such an important item would have to be added in retrospect. Worse, it's absurd.<br><div><br>Polyglot<br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-02-11 21:15 GMT+01:00 Mike N <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:niceman@att.net" target="_blank">niceman@att.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 2/11/2015 2:49 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:<br>
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Read through the issue tracker: It's clear that issues reported are<br>
pushed back on by the core iD developers. It's very "tightly held".<br>
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I disagree (not a developer here). The interesting thing that came out of this discussion is the realization that none of the key problems that people are seeing have an outstanding pull request. If the pull request is rejected, then you have a point.<div><div><br>
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