[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Future Look

[Paweł Paprota]

>> Now take this Linux methaphor and apply it to OSM and its main
>> website. In my time that I spent following Rails Port and in
>> general main website development (about 6 months) I have seen 2
>> maybe 3 people writing major pieces of code for Rails Port, some of
>> those pieces have been rejected from merging for various reasons.
>
> i, and i hope everyone else too, applaud those people for their
> efforts. however, as every maintainer learns, it's a difficult
> balancing act to merge new features while keeping quality high -
> which sometimes means that some things don't get merged first time.
> i'm certain that this happens in the linux kernel too, and it's
> happened to me in the rails_port: i took the feedback, improved my
> code and re-submitted.
>

I did not make my point clear enough. I meant that that *there are only
2 or maybe 3 people* writing major pieces of code for Rails Port and
then again it's not always easy to merge it (which is a good thing, I
agree).

Ideally people from the ecosystem would be willing to write some code to
integrate their cool projects into the main site. That is clearly not
happening.

>
> i think we can be more optimistic than that - we're all trying to
> improve OSM, so rather than endlessly discussing all the negative
> things, perhaps we could get back to doing what we enjoy: writing
> code / mapping / etc...
>

Sure, that's always good but note that another thread about OSM's future
ends in basically no conclusion. Or rather the conclusion seems to be
that all is fine and the future is secured with the current approach.

Paweł