Develop for JOSM core or plugin?

[Jiri Vlasak]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 02:53:49PM -0700, Tom H. wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm using JOSM constantly in my day to day job, and I'm having a few ideas
> for using hotkeys to toggle some of the layer settings that can now only be
> activated by point and click. I'm new to contributing in JOSM but am
> currently looking through the dev docs, and I was just wondering if it's
> better to realize my hotkey ideas via a plugin, or trying to incorporating
> them into the JOSM core?

tl;dr (generic) ? upstream : plugin ;

There was already discussion when I started developing the plugin. Feel free to
see the "JOSM enhancements vs. separate plugin" thread [1].

Have a nice day,
jiri

[1]: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2018-May/thread.html