CoMaps (FOSS Navigation, Organic Maps fork)

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@TheDoc

we can pick a concrete step such as waiting til the formation of a legal entity is complete. (Perhaps @CoMaps or @IXVG47QZ have some insight as to when that may happen?)

I have seen the project leaders talking about it over in Zulip chat. They are still looking into it, nothing definitive to share yet (they would share that publically if there was something definitive).

@TheDoc

It’s been over a month since the last update regarding progress with Accrescent. It seems like their financial situation has improved since then so I wonder if now is a good time for CoMaps to reach back out? Anyone who’s on Codeberg can ask about it under issue #52.

I keep hearing over and over, Accrescent can’t take on new apps right now. When they can I’m sure we’ll be on it.

@anonymous378

By actually having the community be involved in real decisions instead of silly votes. Which was what was originally mentioned as their issue with this claim of being community driven. So far, it seems, most of the “community driven” aspect is just paperwork.

I feel this critique isn’t fair. The community is involved. Votes are one thing that is special about CoMaps, that’s why everyone mentions it. But beyond that, it’s an open source app:

• Anyone can raise an issue on Codeberg.
• Anyone can jump in and create a pull request on Codeberg.
• As already mentioned, anyone who wants to actively contribute can join the Zulip chat where all the project leaders are.

I honestly don’t know what’s left to critique. How could CoMaps be more community focused, besides the obvious of creating a not for profit (which is a big job and still in the works)?

@anonymous378

Outside of that, it is basically the same amount of “community-driven” as any other open source project with contributors. If people are going to use “community-driven” as some big selling point, there should be more to it then just having picked a name and logo.

Okay, this is true. Here’s the thing, CoMaps isn’t claiming to be this super ultra project that’s better than any other FLOSS project out there. Not sure where that idea came from. Organic Maps is a mess. They don’t care about the community, so of course when an open source fork came about to fix this, they chose to highlight the community aspect of the project. Is it fair to criticize a FLOSS project on the basis that it is run like every other FLOSS project?

By the way, the name was also chosen by the community too ( #34 - Vote: Project Name - comaps/Governance - Codeberg.org ). Using a name, chosen by the community, as a way to besmerch the project as not overly community focused is, well, a strange opinion, I’ll just say that.