[OSM-dev] Andy Allan joining web site maintainers

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 10.07.2017 11:14, Andy Allan wrote:
> My intentions for the next few months are to continue to
> do whatever I can to encourage new contributors. 

I think it would be helpful for new contributors if the following two
points could be explained:

* What kinds of changes to the API are acceptable while still being "API
0.6"? Is anything that adds new API calls automatically on hold until we
do "0.7", or should we just refrain from breaking existing API calls?

One reason I'm asking this is that there's a bunch of things that have
an API call but are not accessible through the web site (e.g. "show me a
specific version of this object" - website has just full history or
latest), and vice versa (web site can show all changesets by a given
user, but no API call exists for that). It could be a low-hanging fruit
to create feature parity between website and API at least in some areas.
Maybe this is even on some mental roadmap somewhere - I heard people
talking about making the web site actually *use* API calls, rather than
accessing the database directly.

* What is the relationship between "cgimap" and the web site, and in how
far are contributions that touch an area handled by "cgimap" required to
cover both the C++ and the Rails implementation?

One reason why this is of interest to me is that I'm still very much
interested in being able to access deleted objects through the API and
through the web site. I've made a few half-baked attemtps at
implementing that in the past
(https://github.com/woodpeck/openstreetmap-cgimap/tree/deleted_call,
https://github.com/woodpeck/openstreetmap-website/tree/browse-deleted-objects)
and would appreciate guidance of how to "do this right", if at all
possible within the constraints of "0.6".

Bye
Frederik

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