[Imports] Migrating Imports RFC to Community Forum

[James Crawford]

On 6/19/23 19:09, Mike Thompson wrote:
> How specifically are mailing lists difficult to "understand"?  It is 
> pretty simple, if you want to say something, make sure you reply to 
> the list, and type your response.  That is it.  Nothing complicated.
Well, I will say I was definitely a mailing list newb for some time. I 
had lots of trouble understanding the thread structure and the replying 
to list stuff. And messages like the one William sent following this one 
also were confusing, where your whole message was copied at the bottom 
of the page, and then cited separately in his message. The learning 
curve is higher, and  the functionality is less like I mentioned.
> Do you have metrics on how many people are subscribed to the lists or 
> are you just going off of how many different people typically respond 
> on a given thread?  I am not sure that a "very small group of users 
> have full oversight", only that a small group of users speak up.  I 
> suspect that a lot of us just read the postings and seldom respond.
See William's message :)
> A bigger issue with regards to imports is that I suspect that many 
> imports are taking place without following the established guidelines.
This is one of a few different things I'm working on to crack down on 
imports that don't follow the guidelines.


Thanks,

--SherbetS (James Crawford)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/attachments/20230620/6f23811d/attachment.htm>