[josm-dev] Renaming a validator rule

[Dirk Stöcker]

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 People who use the current rules will stay with an outdated rule forever 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 :-)

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