Hello fellow import community,
I recently gave a talk at State of the Map US, and I was reminded that
this was a topic that I wanted to address.
I would like to propose that we move the mandatory discussion in the
import guidelines from the Imports mailing list to the new OSM Community
Forum. (Discussion there
<https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/imports-community-category/97957>)
The main reasons I think this should be done are:
a) Many users that I know are active on the mailing lists are also
active on the community forum
b) Mailing lists may be difficult for some users to understand, given
that it's an archaic technology that less and less new community members
are familiar with.
c) Mailing lists aren't as representative of the international
community. I've found that the mailing lists become a very small group
of users that frequent the lists, and then that very small group of
users have full oversight of affairs, which detracts from the ideals of
an open project.
d) Information can be presented and queried easier on the community
forum. Discourse has tools available to provide information about the
list, and it's so much easier to search and view history than the archives.
I'm happy to discuss this issue with the community, please ask me
anything you're curious about.
Regards,
-- James Crawford (SherbetS)
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