[OSM-dev] Status of the Mapnik stylesheets

[Richard Fairhurst]

Paweł Paprota wrote:
> My statement was based on my own experience with open source 
> projects.
> I cannot be bothered to find some hard evidence that "Github 
> makes people much likely to contribute" though, it's just a fact. :-)

Your own experience is (I'm guessing) open source coding projects, though,
not cartography projects.

git is really insanely hard to understand if you're not a coder. I'm barely
a coder and it boggles my head, every time. I can do three things with git,
and for anything else I end up asking Andy or Matt or Tom or someone. Or
Google.

Whether or not we use git or svn for the Mapnik stylesheet is a question,
but not one which I think will have much bearing on the willingness of
people with cartography nous to contribute. More important are:

- moving from something that cartographers can't understand (XML) to
something they might be able to (CSS)
- reducing the need for an industrial rendering stack to test changes, and
instead being able to prototype on the desktop or via the web

cheers
Richard





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