[osmosis-dev] OSMembrane - GUI front-end for Osmosis

[Igor Podolskiy]

Hi Brett, hi Osmosis developers,

> I just finished having a play with OSMembrane.  Colour me impressed :-)
> It's a great little app, and provides a nicely polished user experience.
thanks - it's great you like it :)

> I hope development on the tool remains active, or that it at least
> continues to be maintained.  It should be a great complement to Osmosis.
Yes, at least we will try to - it's not like there aren't any ideas to 
further improve OSMembrane. There are probably enough features to 
implement and bugs to fix for months if not years ;)

A couple of days ago I discussed the future of this project with Jakob, 
Tobias and Christian - the original authors - and we decided that we 
will gradually transfer the maintainer role for OSMembrane over to me in 
the next weeks as I seem to have more time and resources for this and, 
most importantly, I need this tool much more than them ;) And as none of 
us wants OSMembrane go to sleep, this seemed the obvious thing to do.

Development mainly takes place at http://osmembrane.de/ currently. In 
the last couple days I've been working on boring infrastructure-like 
things like the Ant build file, but I'm almost done, and I look forward 
to "real work" on it - fixing bugs and implementing features, that is.

So - yes, OSMembrane is not dead, is not planning to be dead, stay tuned 
for new releases. Bug reports, feature suggestions, patches and any kind 
of feedback is very welcome.

Since we are on osmosis-dev here: one of the improvements I thought of 
in the middle term would be integrating OSMembrane a little tighter with 
Osmosis, for example using Osmosis as a library instead of just 
generating command lines and reflecting over the classes to determine 
the list of available tasks. However, as far as I can estimate, this 
might require some work on Osmosis itself, too, so it needs a little 
more thought.

So now the question is quite generic: what do you think of the general 
idea - is it worth it? Or is there some kind of requirement which 
opposes such an integration that I am unaware of?

Best regards
Igor