[OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

[Tom Hughes]

On 12/10/12 00:58, Tom MacWright wrote:

> So, along with the big 'kicking off' blog post on MapBox[1], I posted
> three basic issues in the openstreetmap-website tracker - JSON support,
> filtering on the main api, and a tag api.
>
> The three of these were closed by Tom Hughes, which is fine - they might
> be all bad ideas, and if we're treating the issue tracker as "Stuff we
> all agree is definitely good", then they don't belong there: they're
> relatively undiscussed ideas, since I had just posted them. But that's
> beside the point of this email:

That's not strictly accurate - the JSON API one did not get closed.

Personally I'm not a fan of using bug trackers for things that aren't 
either actual bugs, or concrete proposals with patches attached. What I 
call wishlist type tickets tend to just hang around forever because in 
open source people generally work on things they are interested in, not 
things other people have asked for.

This is obviously a little different because you guys are planning to 
work on these things, but issue trackers that are acquiring things at a 
faster rate than things are being closed have an unfortunate effect on 
my brain where I start trying to figure out how to get rid of some 
things in order to get things "under control" again.

As it happens I also wasn't aware that you wouldn't be able to reopen 
the issue in the way a reporter can in trac.

My personal opinion is that, as Andy has said, the rails-dev list is 
probably the best place for early stage discussions, but I've reopened 
the tickets which did get closed for now and if people prefer to do the 
discussion there then fine.

Tom

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