Steve Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> > wrote: > >We wouldn't tolerate anything so disconnected from reality on the map, > Yes, we'd fix it.
Up to a point. We have scarce resources. We don't have enough mappers and we _certainly_ don't have enough developers. It is thus incumbent on us all not to make more work for other people. We should try and solve problems, not create them. If, for example, I create a new feature in P2 that has the side-effect of bringing down the server through, I dunno, overuse of relation/<id>/full or something, then TomH will have to spend a whole load of time either fixing the server or, at the least, rolling back the P2 deployment. In that event, no matter how awesome the new feature might be, I have caused work for already hard-pressed people and I shouldn't have done it. The wikibox stuff is a neat idea and it'd be great if it could be done right. But as originally posted, it was actively misleading in at least three regards, and we'd already seen someone on the lists who had been misled. At 11pm on a Sunday evening my first response to that is "bin it", not "oh, what I really wanted to do before going to bed was learn some new MediaWiki syntax". ;) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Wiki-editing-was-Re-magical-road-detector-tp6000107p6000415.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
