I don't give a flying monkey's for tag voting, automatic changebots, endless discussions, categories, or any of that crap, but prefer to get on and actually do stuff.
I started to maintain a list, how I map certain objects.
Please have a look at Personal mapping style
JOSM update script
I wrote a little update script for JOSM usable as cron job. It checks the local revision and the available revision at the JOSM webpage and downloads if the local revision is lower.