[josm-dev] Renaming a validator rule
Dirk Stöcker
openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Mon Dec 14 19:16:37 UTC 2015
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> How feasible it is to rename a validator rule in
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Rules ?
Not a good idea.
> Technically, can rules be renamed?
Yes.
> People who use the current rules will stay with an outdated rule forever
> if it gets renamed?
Yes.
> Is there a way to force users migrating from one rule to another one?
I think if the old URL vanishs completely some weeks later they will get
an error, but I'm not toally sure. Also don't know if that error can be
skipped or results in dropping the old rule. It's somewhere in the
caching code :-)
Ciao
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