[josm-dev] Banning plugins

[Paul Hartmann]

Hi,

These belong to a group of plugins developed by students at University 
of Brasov (Romania) [1]:

* DxfImport
* ColorPlugin
* kendzi3d_Improved_by_Andrei
* BuildingGeneralization
* ShapeTools
* ContourOverlappingMerge
* LanecConnectorPlugin
* Remove.redundant.points

My guess is, that the students signed up for an interesting project, but 
did not necessarily have any relation to OSM before. This means a long 
term commitment cannot be expected.

It would be good if some could be merged with existing plugins.
E.g. we have already a core feature to simplify a way. Then there is the 
SimplifyArea plugin, which does the same, only better. Now the 
Remove.redundant.points plugin should be integrated somehow.
Next, we don't need "kendzi3d" and "kendzi3d_Improved_by_Andrei", the 
improvements should be merged.

[1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=26385 (German)

Paul

On 03.06.2015 02:43, Vincent Privat wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm sick tired of these three plugins:
>
> 1) CADTools
> 2) ContourOverlappingMerge
> 3) LaneConnector
>
> Why? Because they all include old, incompatible code that causes conflicts
> with turnrestriction plugin:
>
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11202
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11438
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11468
>
> We reported these issues to their respective authors, but none of them dare
> to reply:
>
> https://github.com/ROTARIUANAMARIA/CADTools/issues/1
> https://github.com/bularcasergiu/ContourOverlappingMerge/issues/1
> https://github.com/TrifanAdrian/LanecConnectorPlugin/issues/1
>
> There are still users facing these errors, see:
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11518
>
> So I'm moving these plugins to the internal list of unmaintained plugins.
> Next version of JOSM will suggest to disable them at startup.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
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