[josm-dev] josm, changelogs and release processes

[shirish शिरीष]

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2012/3/30 Simon Legner <simon.legner at gmail.com>:
> Hi!

Hi,
Simon thank you for replying back so promptly.

> On 30/03/12 01:06, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Is it possible to get summarized blogs from
>> 2k5 onwards when JOSM started its development [2] ?
>
> Of course it is possible, but it requires someone performing this task.
> I would like to note that one the one hand it is very cumbersome (as one
> has to go through every revision and figure out its relevance), and on
> the other hand the use of changes from 2005 are very limited. My guess
> is that nobody will step in for this task.
>
> For the Debian report, you could comment that the changelog is available
> since 2012 and will (most likely) be continued. I'm not sure whether
> that suffices.

True and understood. If you look at the last reply [0] you would see I
do mention it.

>> Is there any move to move to git entirely
>
> It was discussed shortly in [1]. The bottom line was: no real need and
> it would require some/many adoptions in the configuration.

right, thought as much but good to know for a fact, thank you for the
link, nice read.

>> One of the more interesting bits of the project was when I was reading
>> was the releases documentation [6]. It would be nicer/would have been
>> nicer if this info. would be in the Startup page somewhere  [7]
>> especially the point that 'JOSM does not have a version number really
>> (it is 1.5 for some years now), but uses the always increasing version
>> of source code repository. '
>
> I've never thought of that. Such a note could be added after
>> The current stable snapshot is 5047 and 5127 is the unstable development version.
> on the page.

Ok, whom to talk for such an effect to take place. While I know trac
is similar to mediawiki in the sense that anyone can make a change as
far as the wikifation is concerned, although as its the startup page
its possible that it may have restricted/protected/semi-protected
access. Any info. on this would be nice to know. If possible then
would do the same and link it to the Release processes webpage.

I do have another query too, why are there not more plugins,presets
within JOSM? I do see a sizeable number of additional presets [1] ,
styles and plugins as linked from the JOSM startup page. Is it due to
possible memory constraints or something or something like symbology
[2] in the sense that the given presets and styles and icons are
'safe'/universal  or something ?

I ask as I also saw something similar being shared/discussed in
another form on the API 0.7 page [3] . See the bit about the notation
of trunk being discussed/shared by by the OP.

We attempted to do a bit of mapping in a nearby college using JOSM
last week-end [4] . While I haven't blogged about the issues we faced
while doing the mapping, one of the big irritants was not having all
the presets or what to do if a plugin/preset is not available/made
etc.For instance we had a bunch of sports buildings but could not find
any icons within JOSM. For the record we used the latest tested
snapshot [5]

Thanx again for replying so quickly.

> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> [1] http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/7132

0 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666190#15
1 - http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Presets
2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbology
3 - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=API_v0.7#Classes
4 - http://wp.me/pfuZu-zr
5 - http://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-tested.jar
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