Am 05.07.2012 um 14:30 schrieb Frederik Ramm <[email protected]>: > reading this discussion again demonstrates how useless our voting process > is.
Sad, but true. > It is obvious that this issue has not been thoroughly discussed, that there > is no consensus about which problem exactly it should solve and what the > implications for mappers or users would be. Again sad, but true. But why hasn't it been thoroughly discussed? At some point the discussion simply stopped. A mail trying to revive the discussion didn't receive any response. >From the last votings I have observed I have to state, that a lot - yes, >really a lot - of people stay silent until the voting starts. And then they >all jump out of their holes and scream Oppose, Oppose! Many of them - of >course - don't have any suggestions how the proposal could be improved, it >just sucks in their point of view. Thank you, great help. BTW: I haven't voted yes for this proposal and also will not. But as I already wrote: the discussion simply stopped.... > This means the whole thing isn't ready for voting. Yet I read that voting was > "full underway". You cannot vote *instead* of having a discussion, it won't > work. Right now I think we have to vote instead of discussing because it seems to be the only way to bring people to speak. After writing all this I think that maybe not the voting is the problem, but the discussion. Especially the discussions of controversial topics die quite fast because there are (at least) two sides who - of course - think that their solution is the one and only and it can never-ever be any better. Other opinions are ignored and therefore unresponded and we reach again the Game-Over-state. What we lack often is evolution. Someone suggests a feature, others provide feedback and the proposal is continuously updated until a majority agrees. But this isn't working, because the (constructive) feedback is missing and/or not acknowledged. Enough rant - back to the beach ;-) Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
