[josm-dev] addr mask / last tag takeover / dysfunctional when building=yes on way

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> Dirk - You are doing great work - i just tell you that changing a default
> may have huge impact on peoples workflow and this has bitten at least me
> and 3 collegues in my office who stopped adding addresses and updated
> josm every day to check whether bug was fixed.

Actually waiting for a bug to be fixed without even reporting it is always 
a dumb idea. I develop OpenSource for approx. 20 years now and still 
wonder about people who think that software authors magically know when they have 
trouble.

> See above - My collegues have simply stopped adding addresses or in one
> case started with ctrl-c ctrl-shift-v on the building outlines. All of
> them said josm was broken in respect to address templating. My guess is
> that seeing no complain does not mean everythings okay ...

No complain means everything is ok! As said this no commercial software. 
What counts are:

  * First: What developers want, as they do the work.
  * Second: What users report.

Everything else does not count. We can't effort usuability tests, beta 
tests, customer studies, ...

Users who don't get active don't exists for me. You don't need to pay for 
free software, but if you want something you need to get active.

>> If you want to have more respect to your personal opinion:
>>  * start helping in development, documentation, ...
>>  * donate (server space, money, ...)
>
> Please check mailinglist archives. I guess i am in the top 5 people donating
> server space in the past, coding (not necessarily on josm because i
> dislike java) etc. I stopped with server hosting because my employee closed
> this facility but thats a different story.

I don't know and care about most of the activities in the large field of 
OpenStreetMap in general. I'm responsible for JOSM and only that counts 
for me. I stopped beeing involved in other topics as JOSM consumes too 
much time already.

Regarding this topic: See answer to Frederiks post.

Ciao
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