[josm-dev] "unmaintained" plugins

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, MP wrote:

>> > 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?
>>
>> Because we got lots of bugreports which showed that the plugin was not
>>  actively developed for a long time now.
>
> Which bugreports?

http://josm.openstreetmap.de/search?q=multipoly.&noquickjump=1&ticket=on

> I've also registered in trac under username "bilbo", so if there is
> some mechanism to automatically assign bugs in multipolygon plugin to
> me, then you can activate it :)

Done.

BTW: An account is usually a good idea, as it hides your email from SPAM 
harvesters a bit more :-)

>> I introduced this check to get rid of plugins which are no longer working.
>>  Most users aren't able to decide, so JOSM needs to do this for him. And a
>>  lot of users install ALL plugins without thinking if they need them or
>>  not.
>
> Perhaps that check should also check for plugin version - if you know
> that plugin is unmaintained and version X (the last that is out) is
> not working, then you can limit that check to version <=X and assume
> that if someone will release version higher than X, then it is
> something newer than last known broken version and it will be probably
> fixed. So no more warning is required. Especially since this warning
> can push someone to fix the problem and publish new fixed version :)
> I published new version of multipoly with the version bumped, so that
> should "force" people to upgrade

Send a patch :-)

Ciao
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