[Imports] The place where imports are required to post reviews has changed.- or an april fool ?

[Marc_marc]

Le 07.07.23 à 10:57, Minh Nguyen a écrit :
> Vào lúc 23:48 2023-07-06, Marc_marc đã viết:
>> you put out a call for comments here
>> and the next thread says that people on the forum voted,
>> without a call for a vote on the mailing list.
> 
> James did post an notice to this list about the vote on the day that 
> voting started. [1]

subject "[Imports] Migrating Imports RFC to Community Forum"
isn't a call to vote, it's a request for comment

> As Martin pointed out in an earlier thread [3], you can often get a more 
> timely, higher-quality response from a regional community's mailing list 
> or forum category than from a global mailing list or forum category.

I hear his opinion, but I don't share it
the local community is in the best position to know whether importing 
this data makes sense (quality, freshness, etc.)
however, the global community is in the best position to ensure that
the rules are respected (licence, consistent tagging at global level)
there are plenty of examples of problems, from post offices in France, 
untranslated building:xx, schools, emergency points in Switzerland,
tree with postal addr and all imports reverted despite the fact that
the few local people agreed that "the data licence may be good,
we're not going to waste time checking that".

> Over the years, subscribers to this list have undoubtedly gained a lot 
> of practical experience in evaluating data licenses and postprocessing 
> techniques. It would be a shame to lose that expertise as the center of 
> gravity moves to the forum. If it's any consolation, you can cross over 
> and respond to topics in any regional category regardless of where you 
> normally map. And if we manage to set up that synchronization, then you 
> won't have to.

This is obviously no consolation, or even a solution.
there is a lack of people to detect import problems before they occur.
believing that the solution is to make these people waste more time
than they need to, on the pretext that there are plenty of people 
willing and able to do an import but who don't know how to send
an email, is a farce.

a subject as important as this deserves more attention, and deserves
to have the forum+email merger implemented BEFORE, which will render 
this proposal void as "forum without email" contributors will be able
to discuss with "email without forum" contributors.