[josm-dev] "unmaintained" plugins

[Karl Guggisberg]

> Considering maintaining in OSM-SVN - I don't have commit rights, though if
someone would give me write rights 
> (who should I ask?), I can maintain it in the directory where all the
other plugins reside (which is 
> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/plugins)
> - and perhaps I can also fix some minor JOSM bugs directly myself instead
of sending patches to trac like before.

You'd be welcome to do so! You can easily get access to the plugins SVN,
it's not the same as the JOSM SVN. Here's what you have to do:
  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Accounts#SVN_access_.28OSM_software.29

Regards
Karl 

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Von: josm-dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:josm-dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org] Im Auftrag von MP
Gesendet: Samstag, 10. Oktober 2009 18:04
An: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
Betreff: [josm-dev] "unmaintained" plugins

As was written in bug ##3679:
>multipoly is unmaintained as long as the normal users don't get an update
of it.
>When you do updates locally, then this does not change the situation. So
either it should be maintained in OSM-SVN or you add it back as external
plugin on the plugins page and care for it. Until then it remains officially
unmaintained.

Before someone deleted it from the plugins page (so it WAS available through
"official JOSM plugin update system" and it was pointing to corrent URL with
newest and working version) it was maintained and perfectly working. I
wonder how someone have discovered that is is unmaintained?

I tried to edit the page http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Plugins but the
table with plugins is inserted by some macro and I don't know what to edit
to modify the table.

Considering maintaining in OSM-SVN - I don't have commit rights, though if
someone would give me write rights (who should I ask?), I can maintain it in
the directory where all the other plugins reside (which is
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/plugins)
- and perhaps I can also fix some minor JOSM bugs directly myself instead of
sending patches to trac like before.

Also, i think this "feature" as it is is quite stupid - if you want to use
some of the unmaintained plugins (if that plugin is still working, which is
the case of mutipoly), there should be some checkbox "don't remind me for
this plugin again", otherwise you'll see this message every time you start
JOSM. I think current exception handling in plugin is enough - when plugin
causes exception, there is possibility to disable it. Plugins that do not
work cause exception and gets disabled by the user. Plugins that do work but
are unmaintained - if they do work, why offer to disable them on every JOSM
startup?

I think best would be to remove this "feature" and let users decide which
plugins they want to use.

Martin

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