[HOT] Difficulty in communicating with iD users

[Richard Fairhurst]

john whelan wrote:
> When you get to a certain size you need a formal review process 
> before making changes and I think HOT is now at that size.

Which is not at all relevant as iD is not a HOT project.

OSM empowers its developers to make decisions: on openstreetmap-carto, iD,
JOSM, osm.org, osm2pgsql, you name it. Most developers welcome feedback, but
consensus cannot always be reached, as per the recent changes to osm-carto.
The idea that you might impose a formal review process to tell non-HOT
developers what to do is absolutely anathema to OSM and I think would lead
to a mass walkout of developers.

If you want a humanitarian-focused editor or just a humanitarian-focused set
of presets, then you should host an instance of iD on hotosm.org. Otherwise,
you have to accept that changes will be made.

> Most sane people think in terms of moving mappers to JOSM eventually

Nice insult. Actually http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/5/2/21/htm, published a
fortnight ago, shows that the picture is more varied than you might think.
France is 84% JOSM vs 9% Potlatch, while the UK is 47% Potlatch vs 42% JOSM.

Richard




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