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

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:37 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.

Not quite, it should be:

> is less trusted and
> accepted than someone who comes along and says "I know nothing about
> programming at all *in Java*, and want to improve JOSM in this way."

which is somewhat more accurate. Java is not magic and I wrote large
chunks of code for JOSM where my last contact with Java was 7 years
ago. Java experience is not a requirement in this project.

In my opinion it is extremely bad form for your first email about a
project to be "let's refactor the codebase". It's a form of disrespect
for everything that has been done already. By all means send your
patches but they better be for features and not just refactoring
because you think it looks nicer.

Have a nice day,

> Gerv
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