[OSM-dev] Ways with 40k nodes, was: osmosis pgsql schema

[Dave Stubbs]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:30:25AM +0000, Andy Allan wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Stop making it more complex by introducing arbitrary limits
>> > because of technical issues, especially ones that go away when you move
>> > to better hardware or software.  Start making things scalable.
>>
>> Your attitude stinks.
>
> Thanks, the eau de toilette is working, excellent!
>
>> I'm sat here for the second day of my weekend,
>> along with another 8 people (which makes up a large chunk of our
>> development community) working on our free time on the code and
>> running the servers. You realise what that means, right? Actually
>> doing some work, not just back seat driving?
>
> Right, and I'm here thinking how absurd the development is going.  I
> commented on it because I thought it was absurd.  I've been looking to
> get into OSM development more, sorry I'm not there yet, but *your*
> attitude just puts me right off.  I absolutely love the work you (and
> Dave, and others?) have done on the cycle map, but if you can't accept
> criticism graciously I can't help but think you value the project less
> than your self esteem.


You may not be meaning it like this, however it doesn't come across as
constructive criticism, but as a collection of insulting comments. And
you just compounded it.

Your original statement is fairly rude. It comes across that you
believe the OSM devs aren't really interested in mapping and just want
to make your life difficult -- almost as if that's their primary goal
in fact. Inserting lines like "Start making things scalable" just
pisses people off who are doing their best to make things work.
Now you just told everybody that what they're doing is *absurd*.

We're just trying to make OSM work, and sometimes in such a large
system that involves making some compromises.

Dave