[OSM-dev] Gathering of the iD forks

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 12:22, Mikel Maron <mikel.maron at gmail.com> wrote:
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> With Quincy passing on the iD maintenance baton, and recruitment in motion, we want to make sure there's good knowledge transfer in the immediate term and no blockers to getting out updates if needed. And want to think about in the longer term how iD can best plan to absorb updates into core, with forks eventually being more a matter of configuration and deployment parameters. Etc.

Thanks for organising the meeting yesterday, it covered a lot of useful topics.

One point that I'd like to raise on this list is the need for an
interim "caretaker maintainer" for iD, someone who can e.g. update
dependencies and make point releases. This means that all the work
done elsewhere (e.g. in the editor layer index) can be incorporated
into iD and deployed on openstreetmap.org . There are instructions for
how to do this in RELEASING.md in the repo (creating a git tag, making
a PR against the openstreetmap-website repo, etc).

If anyone on this list is, or knows someone who might be, at least a
little bit interested in being a caretaker for the immediate future
please make yourselves known! If you have any experience with iD
development, either as a former developer/maintainer/PR author that
would be ideal.

Thanks,
Andy