[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Filter changesets in History by bounding box area (#3242)

[Lee Carré]

@mikelmaron

> > While OSMCha is a tool which I generally like, it's also v0, meaning that the developers think it's not yet ready for prime-time (which would be v1+).
> 
> I don't think that's quite accurate and depends on what's meant by "prime-time". It's very much in production shape now.

>From [*The Art of Unix Programming*](http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/) (§ Part Ⅲ. Implementation § Chapter 16. Reuse) § [The Best Things in Life Are Open](http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch16s04.html):

> …
> …. A major consequent difference between open-source practice and elsewhere is that a release level of 1.0 actually means the software is ready to use. In fact, a version number of 0.90 or above is a fairly reliable signal that the code is production-ready, but the developers are not quite ready to bet their reputations on it.
> …

Authored by Eric Raymond. The same author of *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*.

I didn't state that *I* thought it wasn't ready for non-experimental usage, but that the *developers* didn't yet think it was (by their own standards).
Re-read my original.

However, when fixes to mobile layout occurred only recently (v0.84, if I recall) … well, QED methinks.

More often, version<1 is a comment on feature-completeness, rather than reliability, robustness, refinement (debugging) & such.

> That would need some thinking […] -- particularly assessing usage volume and making sure infrastructure is in place …

See above 😄.

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