[OSM-newbies] Potlatch & cycleways

[Richard Fairhurst]

Dave F. wrote:
> Do you think that tomorrow I need to look for a better editor?

Honest reply? Yes, I do. More to the point, I think that, tomorrow or  
today if possible, you need to recognise that we are all volunteers,  
working in our free time, for the love of it. So yes, I'd rather it  
was some other editor author, not me, spending the time to tell you  
that, because then I can get on with something useful.

Yes, ideally I would have updated the changelog at the same time. Yes,  
the undelete function doesn't cover every eventuality.

On the other hand, an improved Potlatch without a changelog comment  
yet (and every single release _has_ been documented there, so clearly  
it'll come) is evidently better than no improved Potlatch. On the  
other hand, no other OSM tool has undelete, full stop.

I don't know how many hours you have in your day, but I only have 24,  
and for the past week-and-a-half most of them have been dedicated to a  
hairy deadline in the day job - keeping the roof over my head, which  
OSM doesn't actually do. I simply haven't had time to do the bells and  
whistles. That time which I have been able to spare for Potlatch  
development has gone into fixing a (much more important) problem which  
another user reported, via the proper channels, in a really helpful,  
friendly way, complete with steps to reproduce and warm words. That  
helps. That helps a lot.

You can write "surely it should this" and "surely it should that" all  
you like. Yes. I know. Unless you can magic those extra hours from  
somewhere, it doesn't make it happen.

cheers
Richard