[OSM-talk] Potlatch :-)

[John McKerrell]

On 23 Nov 2007, at 14:39, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> No kidding?! That's why I'm not expecting, or asking, the non-techie
> community to test it. The original mail (http://
> lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2007-November/007919.html) was
> on dev. The reason the posting you quoted was on talk is because it
> was a response to Karl's on talk. We don't need UI testing by non-
> techies for undo/revert right now, we need db integrity testing by
> techies.
>
Hehe, I did think to myself "did Richard really send that to talk@?"

It would be good not to let Robert's point about dev pass though, it  
would be very good to have an OSM hosted dev machine that new  
technology could be tested on. If that's already planned it would be  
good to hear it from someone.

John