How is an open source project that was open source on day one, was publicly communicated from day one, heavily explained in time-consuming technical blog posts, has 77 contributors, and has accepted hundreds of pull requests "tightly held."
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Tom MacWright <t...@macwright.org> wrote: > >> Unfortunately, experience suggests that there's relatively little that a >>> discussion on on the "talk" mailing list is going to be able to do here. >>> Help >>> with development or give productive feedback on the issue tracker. >> >> > Productive feedback on the iD issue tracker follows a similar trajectory > to that on the talk list. It's not really working there either. > There seem to be fairly deep seated differences in the philosophy of > on-boarding new mappers, and those reflect themselves in iD's user > interface. Since iD was awarded prime spot on osm, and since it's > development is tightly held, everyone else is left with no outlet other > than to complain. > > OSM is a very open project in general, but iD's development is very > tightly held and opinionated. > > > >> FUD around editors has been discussed to death and it's clear that >>> writing more emails won't do anything. >> >> > "Fear uncertainty and doubt" implies the criticism is invalid. > >
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