[OSM-talk] OSM mailing list stats

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Question remains though: are those ppl who are editing interested in
> (technical or generic) project news or do they just want to map? I
> wouldn't be surprised if it is the latter. If so it would indicate the
> project is slowly growing out of it's infancy from the userbase  
> point of
> view...

We should have, at the very least, a low-traffic channel we can use  
to talk to everyone who is editing, for important news. Such a  
channel will then also require someone to decide what information to  
send on the channel (could be done wiki-style with a bit of discipline).

We'd then make sure that editors like JOSM and Potlatch show the  
latest info in a popup or so if something has changed since the  
user's last login. Ideally, a database flag would tell us when the  
user read the news last, but at least those editors with access to  
the file system could also store this in a properties file.

Bye
Frederik

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