| ▲ | random3 a day ago |
| Relevant thread from yesterday's thread on the original project this was forked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794575 https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/ > Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community. |
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| ▲ | pastk 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| To clarify - this quote pertains to the Organic Maps situation > Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community. CoMaps had been started because Organic Maps shareholders were not interested fixing those governance and transparency issues. |
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| ▲ | miroljub a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Nitpick: Organic Map is not original project. It's a fork of Maps.me. |
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| ▲ | ponkipo a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Another nitpick: at least OM is made by people who made MapsMe. CoMaps is not - developed by a community, whatever it means. | | |
| ▲ | herrherrmann 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You can look up who the contributors are, e.g. in their open-source repo: https://codeberg.org/comaps
There are also issues and projects with lots of discussions about what to prioritize, etc.
So, bashing that “community” is too fuzzy is perhaps not very warranted. (Although I guess they should add a section “Who makes CoMaps?” to the FAQs or so.) | |
| ▲ | miroljub 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The fact that OM leadership pulled the same open-closed game twice is telling. Many open source contributors who donated their private time and effort to the project just didn't want to do that any more when OM leadership started the game again. That's the main reason they forked and started a new project. |
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| ▲ | codethief 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Interesting, I didn't realize Maps.me used to be open-source! I suppose this is the code (from five years ago): https://github.com/mapsme/omim | |
| ▲ | random3 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Also forked for similar governance concerns :)) |
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