Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Dave F. wrote: > >> Do you think that tomorrow I need to look for a better editor? >> > > Honest reply? Yes, I do. More to the point, I think that, tomorrow or > today if possible, you need to recognise that we are all volunteers, > working in our free time, for the love of it. So yes, I'd rather it > was some other editor author, not me, spending the time to tell you > that, because then I can get on with something useful. > > Yes, ideally I would have updated the changelog at the same time. Yes, > the undelete function doesn't cover every eventuality. > > On the other hand, an improved Potlatch without a changelog comment > yet (and every single release _has_ been documented there, so clearly > it'll come) is evidently better than no improved Potlatch. On the > other hand, no other OSM tool has undelete, full stop. > > I don't know how many hours you have in your day, but I only have 24, > and for the past week-and-a-half most of them have been dedicated to a > hairy deadline in the day job - keeping the roof over my head, which > OSM doesn't actually do. I simply haven't had time to do the bells and > whistles. That time which I have been able to spare for Potlatch > development has gone into fixing a (much more important) problem which > another user reported, via the proper channels, in a really helpful, > friendly way, complete with steps to reproduce and warm words. That > helps. That helps a lot. > > You can write "surely it should this" and "surely it should that" all > you like. Yes. I know. Unless you can magic those extra hours from > somewhere, it doesn't make it happen. > > cheers > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > > You're correct Richard, we are _all_ volunteers. You're also equal with the rest of us in having only 24 hours per day. Which is why I don't have time to work out if certain ways changing format in a matter of seconds is due to my actions. In respect of this I never suggested doing anything extra to increase your time, just doing it in a different order to help avoid confusion.
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