id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
15263	Promote JOSM development by migrating to github	nyurik	team	"I just looked closely at the github repo for iD and for JOSM, and it seems there is a very substantial problem - JOSM gets very little attention from the new development. The SVN and Trac are antiquated, making new it needlessly hard for the new contributors to help the project.

JOSM is maintained by the amazing 4 volunteers (and a hard to track number of patch authors - which is another problem in itself - it is not good when contributions don't get tracked and discovered easily)
https://github.com/openstreetmap/josm/graphs/contributors

iD has contributions from 154 people!  Most of them are tiny, but that's the indicator of how easy it is to fix just a single letter in a message, or some other minor adjustment.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/graphs/contributors

Beyond the code, Trac is painfully outdated.  When writing this bug, I tried to find an existing one - by searching for ""github"" - and I got back 1000+ results. Narrowing it down required prolonged search.   On top of it, I accidentally hit reload, and lost all my text - not a good user experience.

If we want new contributors to easily join and help JOSM, we should drop the antiquated SVN and Trac. Migration is always uncomfortable, but I think JOSM held out long enough, and the benefits far outweigh the minor temporary costs.

Thanks for doing an amazing work on this established product. Please let the new contributors an easy path to join"	task	closed	normal		Core		wontfix