[OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

[Paweł Paprota]

> "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.
> 

Disclaimer: I have just started working on OSM a few weeks ago so I may
be wrong with my impression about how things work.

Generally I would say that OSM works like a typical open source project
- people who do the actual programming work choose what they want to
work on. That's OK since this characteristic is the main attraction to
open source for programmers around the world - they can work on what
they like, instead of working on what their boss or a customer order
them to work on.

I think every open source project, including the big ones has some
challenges with "user voice being heard" or at least that's the
impression. If you propose to change it by creating a community-driven
(instead of "admin"-driven as you put it) wishlist, by any means - do
it. The operative word being "do".

Paweł