Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Guillaume Rischard]

Bryan Housel hasn’t been the iD maintainer for a few weeks now.

You can find the discussion on the OSMF board’s proposal to resolve 
controversies related to iD at 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2020-June/006865.html 
.

Guillaume

> On 2 Aug 2020, at 19:52, Tomas Straupis  wrote:
> 
> Will this mean that iD would adhere to de facto situation as well as wiki 
> info and stop lying that original water schema is "deprecated" and 
> authoritarian coder Brian will be removed from decision making and 
> communication?
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Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Tomas Straupis]

Will this mean that iD would adhere to de facto situation as well as wiki
info and stop lying that original water schema is "deprecated" and
authoritarian coder Brian will be removed from decision making and
communication?
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Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

sent from a phone

> On 2. Aug 2020, at 13:49, Mikel Maron  wrote:
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> As part of this focus, we want to organise coordinated funding to support 
> continued maintenance and development of the iD editor, as iD's strong 
> continuous development over the past several years has served the OSM 
> community well.


this is very exciting news. Part of the work could be invested to align iD’s 
tagging suggestions with the community expectations for established tags. 
There’s also this impressive list of contested decisions from the past, which 
could merit looking at when thinking about the direction that iD shall go to:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID/Controversial_Decisions


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[OSM-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Mikel Maron]

Hello

The OSMF board is working to make OSM's core software and infrastructure more 
stable and sustainable by supporting paid roles for priority needs, such as the 
Senior Site Reliability role 
(https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2020-July/006973.html), 
and the pilot to fund "OSM Infrastructure" projects 
(https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2020-August/006987.html).

As part of this focus, we want to organise coordinated funding to support 
continued maintenance and development of the iD editor, as iD's strong 
continuous development over the past several years has served the OSM community 
well. Quincy Morgan is iD's maintainer and lead developer. Unfortunately, 
full-time support of his work recently ended. He'd very much like to continue, 
and the OSMF Board wants to see that happen. He has written up this proposal 
(https://github.com/quincylvania/quincylvania.com/blob/main/resources/Morgan%20iD%20work%20proposal%207_27.pdf)
 with his ideal plans for iD over the next year, along with notes about how 
he'll organise, grow the developer base, communicate, and set priorities, and 
make iD better. The final priorities for the year will be made in consultation 
with the community.

To help fund this project, as well as the SSRE role, we're looking at earmarked 
donations from companies, chapters and organisations. Administratively, we 
believe this is easier than other methods of pooled funding, as the OSMF is 
already in most companies' procurement systems, and it would limit paperwork to 
one contract for iD. Initial contract would be for 1 year, and that's what the 
OSMF would look to raise now.

With the OSMF holding the contract, the Board would take a key accountability 
role, reviewing work done on the contract and assessing progress on the plans 
Quincy develops for the project. Additionally, the OSMF is working in 
cooperation with Quincy to establish a formal appeal process 
(https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2020/06/08/toward-resolution-of-controversies-related-to-id/)
 for the relatively rare community issues iD cannot resolve itself.

The OSMF would not see its role as a traditional "boss", instructing iD to 
focus on this or that feature. We would not be prescriptive about priorities. 
This does not mean work in a vacuum. Our expectation is that Quincy, in 
addition to following our hiring framework's principles for transparent service 
to the community, would regularly convene stakeholders from the community to 
share their priorities and feedback. Quincy would assess all priorities 
holistically as he decides on a workable plan for the project.

Over the course of the year, we'll evaluate and learn from how the arrangement 
is working for all, as we look towards year 2 and beyond. For future years, we 
are looking at developing an overall plan for long-term support for all parts 
of the OSMF infrastructure. We want to be able to offer similar support to 
other OSM editors. Our early focus on iD is to ensure continued development.

We want to find out what you, the OSM community, think. Do you have any 
feedback?

If you know of an organisation that might want to fund this, please feel free 
to ask them to contact the OSMF Board.

-Mikel, for the OSMF Board

* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron

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