[josm-dev] Refactoring of the JOSM architecture vs. Plugins

[Ted Mielczarek]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Gervase Markham <gerv at gerv.net> wrote:

>
> It seems as if someone who comes along and says "I'm an experienced Java
> programmer, and want to improve JOSM in this way" is less trusted and
> accepted than someone who comes along and says "I know nothing about
> programming at all, and want to improve JOSM in this way." That seems
> backwards.
>

I think what Frederik has pointed out is that people who tend to talk about
refactoring don't talk about it as a means to an end, but take it for
granted as something that should be done regardless of anything else. There
are other people who don't worry about the code architecture and just submit
patches for bugs or features, and this is more relevant and useful to
Frederik currently. I believe he's already mentioned that if someone was
contributing useful patches, and wanted to do some refactoring as part of
their work, he wouldn't be opposed to it. The problem lies in people who
have never done any JOSM development saying that the first thing they'd like
to do is refactor the whole codebase. I can see why that would be annoying
and unwanted.

-Ted