+1 Regards, Stuart
> On 18 Dec 2014, at 13:36, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 December 2014 at 11:30, SK53 <[email protected]> wrote: >> I personally feel the current discussion is now thrashing. > > I personally feel that the opposition to Matthijs' work is becoming > farcical. After setting up dozens of hoops for him to jump through, > which he has done, and then because he managed that creating more and > more, it's now in the position where people are proposing keeping > demonstrably incorrect data in the database for no coherent reason. > Moreover, despite all common sense showing that it never actually > happens, we're expecting other people to spend their free time on > meaningless, brainless drudge-work in order to fix simple typos by > hand, in some kind of "well this sainsbury's might not actually have > an apostrophe maybe it fell off the wall or something" nonsense. "Oh > boy, I'm sure glad that all these typos are there for me to fix by > hand! That's the /best/ use of my free time, it's /such/ fun." > > This mailing list appears to be having some sort of immune-response > over-reaction. We don't like mechanical edits in general. Fine. > Therefore every mechanical edit must be fought against, to the bitter > end. That's an over-reaction. > >> No-one seems to dispute that we do not have a consensus, Can we leave it at >> that "we agree to disagree". It is usual in such cases to keep the status >> quo ante. > > No, that can't work any more. If we're going to build a successful > community here in the UK then we need to cope with thousands of people > having their own opinion, not just "no consensus" among a few dozen > people on this list. Having every sensible plan derailed by > "noticeable opposition" is not a scalable policy either. This concept > of regional "opt-outs" is also badly thought through, since nobody is > "in charge" of a particular area (no matter how much they might strut > around on the lists) and encouraging people to self-appoint as having > area-based vetoes builds the opposite of the community that we're > trying to build. > > I'd like to encourage everyone to step back, and think of a better way > to organize ourselves. This isn't it. > > Thanks, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > 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
