[OSM-talk] this has to stop: iD user mistakes all over the place

[Tom MacWright]

Ever since 2012, in the second commit ever, "Not breaking other people's
data" has been one of the three clearly stated public design goals of iD.

https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/commit/22fab3eb1d259fe73d3e1498df1ca0e07c613f87

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have been saying this from the very beginning, so it should have been
> taken into account right from the very start of development of iD.
>
> Don't break other contributor's data should have been among the initial
> design goals. Don't bother the user with dialogs when they're about to
> break something should not be a design goal at all.
>
> Odd that such an important item would have to be added in retrospect.
> Worse, it's absurd.
>
> Polyglot
>
> 2015-02-11 21:15 GMT+01:00 Mike N <niceman at att.net>:
>
>> On 2/11/2015 2:49 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>>
>>> Read through the issue tracker: It's clear that issues reported are
>>> pushed back on by the core iD developers.  It's very "tightly held".
>>>
>>
>>  I disagree (not a developer here).  The interesting thing that came out
>> of this discussion is the realization that none of the key problems that
>> people are seeing have an outstanding pull request.   If the pull request
>> is rejected, then you have a point.
>>
>>
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