[Openstreetmap] keeping trac

[Andy Robinson]

Steve,

First impressions are pretty good in as you say it offers greater continuity
for the whole project and makes it much less daunting for the uninitiated to
see all the workings from one familiar looking platform.

Taking a quick look at a few pages reveals that there was some poorly formed
wiki formatting in the original pages which means the formatting is not
properly applied in trac, however this is minor and can be corrected with a
bit of time, some by across the board find and replace operations perhaps?

Obviously the format and look is different from the wiki and therefore will
take a little time to get used to and some new tools and differences from
the wiki to learn for those contributing and editing but these should not be
seen as negatives.

Finally I would also suggest that if changes are being made its time for the
root home page for OSM to more greatly reflect the work going on behind the
scenes. The danger at the moment is that visitors reach the page, open the
map, see very little, and then leave. We want more people to get interested
and a lot of that comes about from reading about the project on the
wiki...etc. 

I guess what I am thinking is that either the OSM page needs to have more
links to sections of the wiki (perhaps some key enticing words in a separate
box) or the front page of the wiki is simplified such that you reach the
viewer, editor and all the other valuable sections and the front page of the
wiki and this effectively becomes the home page. May be my rambling thoughts
here but there is a need I think to gel the whole package together. It would
also reduce the number of bookmarks I need for OSM in my browser!

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstreetmap-bounces at vr.ucl.ac.uk [mailto:openstreetmap-
> bounces at vr.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of SteveC
> Sent: 09 November 2005 14:46
> To: openstreetmap at vr.ucl.ac.uk
> Subject: [Openstreetmap] keeping trac
> 
> Hi everyone, especially people helping with the wiki,
> 
> I've installed trac
> 
> http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/
> 
> here:
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/trac/
> 
> With a bit of luck it can replace mediawiki, websvn and bugzilla in one.
> There are ways of magically converting mediawiki pages to it and it's
> nicer than the things we're using at the moment.
> 
> What do you think? Anyone have experience or reservations?
> 
> have fun,
> 
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
> 
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