[josm-dev] JOSM donations?

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue Aug 2 19:46:42 BST 2011


Hi,

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> So instead of following my advice to either use that new collaborative 
> system or simply add a link to the file hosted on his page and me 
> deleting the wiki we had a lengthy discussion with the result that he 
> states "due to security reasons it is no longer possible to offer that 
> through JOSM presets list". Well, this is total nonsense.

Not related to this thread on the German forum by any chance?

http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=13269

I hope you draw some consolation from the fact that a large number of 
people actually tried to explain things to this guy.

But certainly - the moment that money comes into the equation (e.g. a 
bounty offered for some problem to be solved) it will become much harder 
for the maintainer to make decisions. Currently if someone submits a 
patch you can always say "I don't like it, you'd have to modify this and 
that and that for it to be accepted". If money was on the table then the 
submitter would promptly accuse you of being biased, of wanting to 
afford the money to one of your cronies, or what not. Certainly not an 
enviable position to be in.

> Sometimes I'm very discouraged to care for JOSM and I'm not sure if it 
> is really worth the effort anymore. Each and every time something new is 
> introduced or something is changed you get unacceptable comments and 
> flames. Sometimes this can get too much even for me.

In the thread I mentioned above, someone cautioned the complainant to be 
polite when writing to you because you were "more important than 50 
mappers".

Bye
Frederik

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