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 <winfi...@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 <nice...@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. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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