Vào lúc 17:24 2022-11-19, Matija Nalis đã viết:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 12:12:22 +0100 (CET), Cartographer10 via Tagging 
<tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
This proposal makes sure there are 2 required platforms where people have to 
announce it. That way people have the
choice to follow one of the two channels of their choice to get updated on 
proposals. It is up to the proposal author
to announce it on other channels to increase the reach.

I'd at least put in a requirement that if proposal author announces the 
discussion in X extra channels (i.e. anywhere
more than Tagging ML), that they must follow ALL that X extra channels and 
summarize in Wiki Talk page all points that
have been risen (including those that they think don't matter or disagree with. 
Especially those!) and THEN have extra
RFC period after all those X channels have been summarized, before proceeding 
to the Voting.

Because, someone has to do that summarizing work for extra channels to make 
sense, and it is IMHO only fair that would
be proposal author (expecting that EVERYBODY will do that SAME task is both 
extremely wasteful, hugely unrealistic,
and likely to lead to few participating members willing to do that becoming 
burned out prematurely).

There are already other communication channels announcing proposals independently of the formal requirements. You've mentioned weeklyOSM (which has a comments section) and I've mentioned OSMUS Slack. Practically speaking, no one can fully understand the discussion in every community. That's a much higher bar than just announcing something.

For example, I think it would be perfectly reasonable to alert OSM Japan Slack about my next proposal, but my nonexistent Japanese skills would be catastrophically inadequate to capture the sentiment there. It would be better to candidly state upfront that I'm unable to respond to individual comments there and direct interested mappers to the wiki talk page, where hopefully others can engage as necessary.

All too often, a proposal announcement on this list ends with an exhortation to comment on the wiki talk page, inevitably leading to a long thread here instead. Where is the requirement to summarize the tagging list thread, for the benefit of ordinary mappers who will be voting but can't easily follow Mailman's deeply nested threads split across monthly archives? After all, the proposal guidelines have never required _voters_ to subscribe to the tagging list.

Maybe a better model would be for each community to take some of the burden off the proposal and have one or more self-appointed liaisons handle announcements and communicate the most salient ideas back to a single source of truth (the wiki, or wherever we decide to hold votes in the future). This would apply to the tagging list as well as the community forum.

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