[Rebuild] some conversation topics: API changes + tests + diffs

[Richard Fairhurst]

Harry Wood wrote:
> Yeah I agree this is not ideal. The rebuild list gets left in a state
> where angry discussion seems to be in deadlock, which is bad,
> but then discussion is flowing a little more on IRC.

IRC is an _excellent_ way of doing it.

OSM mailing lists encourage grandstanding and entrenched positions. IRC is
much more like a conversation. You can throw comments out there and
quickly retract them when someone points something out. We have made much
more progress in two days on IRC than we have in a month on this list.

The channels are open to all. I realise timezones are an issue, but
there's not much we can do about that short of attaching one end of a
Tirfor to Europe and the other end to Australia, and even then I'm not
convinced either of us will fit through the Suez Canal.

cheers
Richard