[Strategic] OSM front page discussion and user survey results (with pictures)

[Kai Krueger]

On 04/29/2011 02:56 AM, Eugene Usvitsky wrote:
> * "Report an error" link to OpenStreetBugs
I'd like to mention that there is a (more or less) fully functional 
implementation of the "Report an error" functionality at 
http://openstreetbugs.dev.openstreetmap.org/

It is heavily modeled after the ideas of the original OSB (and uses 
large parts of the client javascript written by Candid Dauth), but is 
fully integrated into the rails_port. Apart from having the bugs stored 
in the main OSM database, this also allows to hook into OSM's user 
management to make it easier to keep track of your own bugs and bug 
comments. This might make it easier to communicate between bug reporter 
and mapper.

The Api was also slightly adopted from the original OSB API to be more 
in line with the other rails APIs. It is mostly a rename, though, so it 
shouldn't be difficult to adapt existing clients to the new API.

A year ago, when I did the bulk of the coding, I talked to Mitja Kleider 
(the maintainer of the current OSB instance) about possible transition 
strategies from the external OSB instance to the integrated one once 
things are ready. He said it would probably be possible to use the 
existing URLs as a proxy to not cause any disruption for existing 
clients in the transition period and thus gracefully moving over without 
any losses.

Tom has just agreed to have a look at the code and review it in the next 
couple of weeks, so depending on what his review sais and how much 
change and clean up is necessary, we might be able to see some progress 
on this fairly soon.

If people have comments and suggestions on what can be improved, I'd be 
grateful for any tips. However, my priority is on getting something 
workable and usable actually deployed before adding too many new features.

Kai