[josm-dev] JOSM donations?

[ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen]

I did not suggest there was an easy solution !!!!

The only solution is slowing the pace of updates, and
creating a team of volunteers that updates and approves
the documentation ahead of a new release.

But the price of that is obvious: a lot of work and less
frequent updates and evolution of the software.


But maybe the suggestion of having a history page in front
of the help may do something.

I imagine a contextual help function per item (it's more or less what we have now in the wiki)
starting with a summary of what changed recently, and how it was done before.

But again, I do not complain, and this is in no way a suggestion to
modify the help system in such a way. 
I know what happens if I do so and burned my keyboard before ;<))

Regards,

Gert 



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Dirk Stöcker [mailto:openstreetmap at dstoecker.de] 
Verzonden: Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:39 PM
Aan: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [josm-dev] JOSM donations?

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote:

> But, if you happen to modify any function that you (or anyone else writing
> for this marvelous editor) may expect that may impact a lot of peoples
> edit life, a short drop-note would make many happy.

Especially in this case it is nearly impossible to reach the relevant 
persons. JOSM's wiki is very open which also means even I as admin have 
very low chances the reach the autors. A lot of the registered email 
addresses fail or aren't read, so I don't even try anymore. Everything 
important is either announced in this list or on the JOSM start page.

> Alternately (but that is asking for a lot of programming effort), a
> context related help function, giving access to the history
> of a specific function (with history) would be a great enhancement.
> But that should not be considered a request from my side, being
> a simple leecher ;<)

JOSM's online help is a wiki. What is included there depends on the users. 
Descriptions what changed and how to handle this can be added anywhere. 
It's simple, but there must be people doing that. JOSM online help 
infrastructure is one of the best I know of. When there are only very few 
people who update these pages we developers can do anything against this.

So many people know that JOSM documentation needs to be improved but only 
a few (less than 5 I would say) actually do anything. I myself am 
programmer. I don't write documentation when I'm not payed for it.

> Josm has a short cycle life, and maybe it's time to make that happen at 
> a slower pace, so documentation will have less lag with the editor.

Well, that's easy. Don't install newer versions.

Ciao
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