On 10/07/2016 23:26, Éric Gillet wrote: > [...] > However, another distinct set of rules is also being enforced by the DWG > : the Automated edits code of conduct > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct> (AECoC). > > In contrary to the Contributor Terms, these rules : > > * [...] > * Doesn't seem to have been voted on before their "establishment" > * [...]
About the question of legitimacy of the AECoC, I have one element to add. I very recently had a discussion with our co-contributor and DWG member woodpeck about a revert of 80 changesets from another contributor which didn't discussed that massive amount of automated work. (which I agree is an issue and that's not the point of this email) One of the main topic of the discussion was that among the 80 reverted changesets there were a handful of non automated ones that therefore shouldn't have been reverted. These collateral damage were due to the lack of time to review each changeset and the fact that many of them didn't have a clear changeset comment. (I'm not discussing here how hard it was to tell them apart, that's why I'm not posting the links to the changetsets in question) I was arguing that the rules for dealing with vandalism and the AECoC don't state that these trade-offs was acceptable (a quick a inaccurate summary but that's not the point of this email). And this resulted in woodpeck editing the AECoC to add a part that would legitimize these kinds of trade-offs and the resulting collateral damage: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct&type=revision&diff=1319651&oldid=1292124 Which raises huge concerns about the legitimacy of the AECoC and maybe other parts of the wiki about community rules. The discussion with woodpeck is still ongoing and he didn't had the time yet to answer my concerns about that wiki edit. I hope I didn't too much altered and biased our discussion when summarizing it. @woodpeck: feel free to correct me. And sorry for posting this before the end of our discussion but this debate is very close to what I was planning to post here when we would have finished. -- tuxayo _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
