[josm-dev] Changed presets, "contact"

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> But I admit that this is a kind of romantic view because it assumes that 
> everyone easily has a server available where they could publish their styles, 
> and that information about available styles flows freely without the need for 
> a central directory. Both are a tad unrealistic.

It is. I did not implement the Wiki-page presets/styles because I think 
everything should be server centric. But because people want it that way. 
We did setup the style/preset pages to link to external styles. But there 
where not used this way. People attached files directly to the page and 
then linked to it and the wiki methods are only the natural result of this 
(which I BTW implemented only after I refused it several times). Only a 
few files are really external. So most people probably don't share your 
decentral opinion.

On the other hand we get bug reports for everything concerning JOSM and 
for truly external stuff we can't fix the problems. Most things become 
abandoned after a short time (have a look how many plugins are actually 
assigned to the no-person "team") and the stuff in our influence at least 
survives this point.

> What we currently have is users expecting there to be the "one true style" 
> provided by the JOSM team.

That is a problem and I'm aware of it since the very beginning. That's why 
I improved the whole server handling to the point we have now. But I can't 
(and don't want to) change the people. If they want the "one JOSM preset", 
then they should get the best we can provide and I think we did a pretty 
good job till now.

Ciao
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