[josm-dev] Please make sure JOSM remains an offline editor

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    because svn.openstreetmap.org currently does not work, I cannot 
start JOSM - the WMS plugin seems to try and load something from that 
server, and blocks if it does not receive anything.

I would kindly ask all JOSM programmers to:

* Have JOSM initiate network connections only if requested by the user - 
do not automatically connect to any servers to do anything. This is good 
style - people might be in a situation where going online costs them 
money, and it is also a privacy concern. I don't like the idea that 
everytime I start JOSM, someone has me in their log file.

* If you think that you really must override the above recommendation, 
at least do so with a proper timeout - do NOT wait for Java to throw an 
exception because there are situations - just like at the moment with 
svn.osm.org - where the other side does accept the connection but just 
doesn't send anything back.

Please let us all make sure that JOSM can really be used "offline".

Bye
Frederik

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