[OSM-talk] Potlatch :-)

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 
> As it says in the original mail, the functionality was temporarily  
> disabled on the main OSM server in the hope of some peer review:  
> "because this is new ground for OSM, I'd appreciate it if people could  
> test it on their local installs".
> 
> How many whingers like you have taken five minutes to test it and mail  
> me your results? Answer: 0. That is the sole, the only reason why  
> there is no undo yet. And I don't see you committing any undo feature  
> to the standard API or your beloved JOSM.

I love potlatch and what you are doing, this is not a criticism of
potlatch, but of the way OSM deploys betas in general.

Please can http://dev.openstreetmap.org/ (or test.openstreetmap.org if
you prefer) lead to a copy of the OSM website, but with the latest beta
prototype version, like http://test.musicbrainz.org/. This should be a
dev servers raison d'être.

Asking the general non-techie community to test the easy to use editor
for non-techies by installing svn, rails,  mysql ... and who knows what
else and then trying to run it on their own machines is just crazy. Post
it at http://dev.openstreetmap.org/ or http://test.openstreetmap.org/
(but not http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~richardf/rails/something_else),
and I promise I will test it, and I'll even ask my wife and people at my
office to try it as well.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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