[OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

[sly (sylvain letuffe)]

On lundi 15 octobre 2012, Tom MacWright wrote:
> Hey Sly,

Hi tom,
 
> Yes and no. Everything is a trade between being totally open (announce it
> on IRC and see what the crowd thinks!) and being totally productive (hole
> up and just do it until you're done and then realize it's duplicated
> effort).

That's why I'm proposing to build a short task list of wishlist first (between 
those who don't want to offer free ponies [1]) and then propose it to wider 
audience.

> For the 'we have tasks' stage, I'd like to handle this in GitHub issues,
My opinion is that the wiki would be the good place for the "we decide wich 
tasks", and after that, okay, you'r the one doing the job, so your choice.


> There are existing wiki pages for
> improvements (top ten tasks, api 0.7, improving openstreetmap) which have
> shown at best mixed success of staying updated and being good for the
> 'actual doing things' collaboration phase.

Is the wiki tool in cause ? or the rules for building those pages ?
"top ten tasks" is  "These are the Top Ten Tasks that the OSM System 
Administrators"
What about the community ? This only is a todo list by the admins, for the 
admins coded by the admins. So far so good, but that's not a wishlist, or, at 
least, not a wishlist of the community.

[1] api 0.7 page is a brainstorming page open to every one (no moderators, no 
short list, no voting sytem) and, ultimetly, no one to ever do what's writen 
here because this is not building tasks lists, it's gathering ideas.

"improving openstreetmap" is a page I've heard for the first time, so I guess 
it is not geared toward the community "whishlist"

If the thread you've launched here named "OSM Wishlist" implies that "OSM" is 
it's community, then my suggestion whould be to create a wiki page explaining 
it's goal, asking on the dev list to build a list of say "15 to 20 
non-utopic/troll/ponies tasks" then ask the community to choose 5 out of 
them.



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