Reading this about the splitting of tasks made me think: In the future, we/a programmer could add a "join back together"-button if someone accidentially split a task in too tiny bits?
But I'm just brainstorming here... Theodin Am 03.02.2014 19:31, schrieb Pierre Béland: > This version looks great and yes we should move on to implement it. > > I am in general quite satisfied of the Task Manager and we have already > discussed of some > enhancements that could make it even more powerful. > > Two points in this version that could proabably be modified to give more > control to the > coordinators and experienced mappers over the control of the jobs. From my > experience coordinating > various Activations with the Tasking Manager, I see two elements in > particular where inexperienced > people cause problems in managing the Task manager job. We have already tried > to find solutions > for these. From the feedback using these functionalities, I think that we > will continue to > progress to a more robust Task Manager. > > 1. Validation > I am also of the opinion that we should rethink this function. There are > other ways to validate, > and letting anybody validate do not assure a good validation process. Plus > there is the Invalidate > button. The problem we are faced with, with the Validation function is that > we cannot Invalidate > the Validation. > > If we keep the Validation step, we could assure that once the task status has > moved to Validated, > mappers do still have access to this task > a. to see info for this task in JOSM > b. To invalidate the task if this is incomplete. This way if an inexperience > mapper click > successively on a task, we are still able to Invalidate the task > > 2. Split function > I suspect that new mappers do not know well sometime where to click and > sometimes endup dividing > tasks in tiny, tiny ones that are not easily manageable. A more descriptive > button for Split plus > a bubble note describing the Split function, would assure a better > interaction with the software. > > Other then that, I have to say that the Task Manger is a great tool for > mapping. The experience in > november with the Philippines Activation shows our capacity to escalate and > coordinate well with > this tool. assure that we cover systematically large zones with various > workfows. We have mapped > two our three times more then for the Haiti Earthquake in 2010. > > A great thank Pierre for this and I hope that we will have the opportunity in > 2014 to continue to > improve this excellent tool. > > Pierre > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *De :* Mikel Maron <mikel_ma...@yahoo.com> > *À :* Pierre GIRAUD <pierre.gir...@gmail.com>; HOT Openstreetmap > <hot@openstreetmap.org> > *Envoyé le :* Lundi 3 février 2014 8h46 > *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Tech WG - tasking manager - workflow branch > > Pierre > > Thanks for the update, great to hear about the progress and new UI features. > > So I'm clear, you're talking about > merging https://github.com/pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager/tree/workflow > into https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager > ? > > And by v2, are we talking about this version? > https://github.com/pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2 > > On validation, I agree it needs a rethink. There is definitely a need for > validation in some form. > But I'd hesitate to remove functionality, the current validation without > replacing it with > something else. I suggest we keep it for now, and move on discussion of what > this should really > look like. > > -Mikel > > * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > > On Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:48 PM, Pierre GIRAUD <pierre.gir...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > It's been a while now that I've started working on a "workflow" branch > (more than a year ago). > The main purpose of this development was to improve the user experience > by simplifying the > interface a bit. > > This branch is the one used for the instance working at > http://tasks2.hotosm.org > <http://tasks2.hotosm.org/>. > > I'm now confident and I think that it's ready. I would now like to merge > the work into the > master branch and update the main instance. It will also eventually allow > us to remove this > second instance. I will do my best to retrieve the data as well. > > For those who don't know yet, in addition to user interface modification, > the main enhancement > is deep linking ie. links to tasks in a read only mode. This allow users > to share a link to > the task they are working on for example. > I also got rid of the "validation" process because it has been the source > of problems > recently. Let's rethink this feature if we really need it. People still > can invalidate tasks > though. > > If no one is fiercely against i, I'll do the merge later this week. > > This will help me give an answer to Mikel and others who were asking me > how much work is left > to get v1 functionnalities in v2. > > Regards, > Pierre > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > | Pierre GIRAUD > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org <mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org <mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
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