JOSM enhancements vs. separate plugin

[Jo]

I guess it all depends on availability of time of the core team. What
surprises me is that plugins that everybody probably have installed like
buidings-tools and utilsplugin2 are not 'adopted' into core. That probably
tells you something about how likely it is that others would be.

Polyglot

2018-05-09 7:25 GMT+02:00 Jiri Hubacek <jiri.hubacek at gmail.com>:

> Dear JOSM devs,
>
> I would like to ask question about the JOSM enhancements. Where is the
> line between functionality acceptable upstream and the feature that
> should be in separate plugin?
>
> The concrete example - I wrote some script for automatic creation of
> residential area around the selected buildings. I rewrote it to Java to
> be able to push it upstream but it looked too specific to be included in
> "Tools" menu. So I created the plugin (mapathoner). Are there any
> guidelines for these decisions?
>
> Thanks,
> jiri
>
>