[josm-dev] Difference between JOSM and JOSM-NG

[Petr Nejedly]

Nic Roets napsal(a):
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> But with JOSM-NG sitting around untouched by anyone but Petr himself,
>> and this for the best part of a year, the argument that a properly
>> designed JOSM would attract more programmers rings hollow. What JOSM
>> currently needs most is a few people who share the responsibility, who
>> make JOSM "their" project and who are willing to do more than submit the
>> occasional patch. It seems to me that JOSM-NG, despite its clean
>> architecture and technical superiority which I don't doubt for a second,
>> has not managed to find these people either.
> 
> A few hints to finding these people :
> * Don't call it JOSM-NG. JOSM already has a bad name.

This is the second time I hear this.

> * Get people to use it before you invite them to write plugins. That
> means limit the scope of the project, but make sure it all actually
> works (incl. uploads).

Yes, that's high on my priority list, but I can't help myself from time to time
and let myself get distracted bu something less important.
And I am also a mapper myself, so whenever I return from a new destination,
I rather map than code ;-)

> Is it true that JOSM-NG will have a different upload process ? Not at
> the end, but while the user was editing ?? If so, I would not consider

No. And it wouldn't make much sense under 0.6 OSM API....

> it superior because of the added complexity.
... but why do you think it would add complexity, and why would you judge
superiority based on complexity?

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Petr "Nenik" Nejedly, NetBeans/Sun Microsystems, http://www.netbeans.org
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