Matt Amos <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Jan Sandbrink <[email protected]> wrote: >> sorry, but what i see happening on the list a lot of times is, that people >> who just want to contribute somehow are smashed into the ground. > > i welcome mr budny's contribution - as a tool for users to identify > and fix problems with the map. since the beginning of this thread the > advice has simply been "don't run a bot". as you rightly point out, > we've had bad experiences with people running bots and we'd rather it > didn't happen again. > > i encourage mr budny to do his project and release the results (and > hopefully even the source code, but some universities have issues with > that)
No issues here; I can (and will) make all the source and documentation freely available. > but *not* to automatically run them against the live database. I never planned on doing that until people had inspected the changes the bot would make and given approval that it would be doing them correctly. Maybe I didn't make this obvious from the beginning; I wrongly assumed /all/ people tested their code before releasing it into the wild. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
