[josm-dev] JOSM-Tested

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Russ Nelson wrote:
> Or, to put it another way, the JOSM release process is broken.  JOSM
> is never released. People are simply told that a certain SVN version
> is better than other versions, and that version gets compiled for
> them.  That's IT.  As a former release manager for several projects,
> this frustrates the bejeezus out of me.

My instinct was to write: "Why don't you act as our release manager then 
if you find this so damn important!"

But reading the rest of your email I thought, I'd rather not be managed 
by you ;)

I'm not too much into how Debian/Ubuntu work but don't they have the 
concept of a package maintainer who is usually not part of the software 
project in question, but just decides which version of the software he 
packages with which version of the rest?

> And if we don't have a user focus, then we have no focus at all.

Maybe not having focus is the next big thing. I mean, it's not that JOSM 
development is somehow in a crisis, or is it? Anyway we only have to 
stick with it another few weeks until Potlatch 2 comes out and everbody 
flocks to that.

(That's the nice thing about versions, you can have release parties 
every now and then.)

Bye
Frederik

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