(...)
What you describe sounds good in theory ("ecosystem") but in practice it
does not work that way. You can't just pick and choose some cool
projects and integrate them into the main site. Software (in particular,
open source software) is not a puzzle that can be easily thrown together
and create something bigger than one piece.
Look at distro packaging people - there is tremendous amount of work
going into delivering upstream projects to actual users at the end. Look
at all the glue between all components (like D-Bus, systemd etc) that is
needed for a fully working system.
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.
All I'm saying that it's not as easy as you make it sound and pursuing
funding for improving the main website is a viable thing to do,
otherwise we will have to keep waiting X years or maybe forever for some
of the more complex pieces to be fit into the puzzle.
Paweł
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