Hi Brian, The website changes have been announced on the talk mailing list before it went live: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-November/068555.html
(And yes, before it went live, many people suggested to remove the Welcome box as well.) -- Matthijs On 2 December 2013 13:04, Brian Prangle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom > > What would I have done differently? I wouldn't be composing emails > complaining! ;-). The close issue is really not the issue - I don't like it > but I can live with it. The main issue is I want to feel that I'm part of a > community- unannounced changes make me feel that I'm just another user in > corporate land. > > Regards > > Brian > > > On 1 December 2013 19:41, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 01/12/13 19:14, Brian Prangle wrote: >> >>> @Rob - I know you communicated this change and asked for feedback for >>> which I'm grateful- I'm just pissed off that there was no obvious >>> communication of the date of implementation - at best that's just >>> unprofessionally poor communication, at worst it's taking the community >>> for granted. >> >> >> Why does the date of implementation matter? >> >> There was a long discussion with, thanks to Rob, much more community >> involvement that any previous changes. Those comments were discussed and >> many changes and improvements made and the discussion had largely come to an >> end so I did a technical review of the code and got a few more issues fixed >> and then merged it. >> >> I would probably have left it longer after the merge before going live >> except that yesterday was a a hack day when we had lots of people in one >> place and ready to fix issues and such like so it seemed like a sensible >> time to do it. >> >> What difference would it have made to you to have been told a specific >> date and time? That's not an attempt to be nasty or anything, it's a genuine >> question so we can try and do things better in the future. >> >> If we have announced it would go live at 11am yesterday what things would >> you have done differently as a result? >> >> >> Tom >> >> -- >> Tom Hughes ([email protected]) >> http://compton.nu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
