<html><head></head><body>My take is that Matthijs' heroic stand is a gesture of sacrifice of a small portion of his sanity for the greater good of OSM<br>
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However, i will totally admit to secretly preparing a kind of endographic study of the social work of the DWG which i'm going to knock some academics out of the sky with. <br>
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We all have our coping strategies<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 18, 2014 6:14:40 PM GMT, Phil Endecott <spam_from_osmgb@chezphil.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Brian Prangle wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Matthij's proposal as it now stands is not controversial and <br /> is merely a typo cleanup. I'm amazed at his patience.<br /></blockquote><br />My assumption is that Matthijs is preparing an academic paper about<br />OSM in which he will reveal the number of hours work required per<br />byte of non-controversial database change, with some extrapolations<br />about the ultimate consequences for the project. I can't imagine<br />anyone would go through this otherwise.<br /><br /><br />Phil.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Talk-GB mailing list<br />Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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