[Tagging] An after-burner meta-discussion

[Sebastian Gürtler]

Am 17.02.22 um 07:03 schrieb Alan Mackie:
> With all due respect gentlemen, this thread alone stretches to 20
> pages of text if you ask Gmail to print it. That's at a rather cramped
> 10pt font. I may well be about to join the ranks of those chastised
> for not wanting to read reams of "primary school compositions", but I
> did not and do not want reading the tagging list to be its own full
> time hobby.
>
> These lists exist to support OSM, which is primarily volunteer driven.
> The lack of consideration given to the time of the volunteers
> digesting these discussions in their spare time is frequently
> disheartening. With a distribution this large there will always be
> more time spent in the reading than the writing. I would ask the list
> as a whole to please try to keep messages reasonably to the point.
>
> Spare time is rather variable and meaningful consensus may take weeks
> if not months to emerge even when the discussions are concise
> enough to review quickly. I think treating these discussions as
> schedulable "debates" would only serve to cut out those with limited
> time and those who prefer to devote their time to actual mapping.
> There seem to be pushes here for a way to formalise a speedy
> resolution, I don't know if this is even compatible with the nature of
> this project.
>

I agree.

Sebastian