[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] That license change link

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:02 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 July 2010 23:30, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>> Simple percentage of contributors might be too limiting as a bright
>> line as contributions follow a long tail.
>> See the lowest graph on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats
>
> I wouldn't do it on percentage of contributors, since the majority of
> contributors never contribute anything.

That graph, aiui, is those with one or more map edits (ways).

> Instead I would do it based on percentages of contributions, while
> there is a lot of user contributing some changes, there is a limited
> number contributing most changes.
>
> If you want suggestions on numbers, I would suggest no less than 90%
> of data contributed, I'm guessing this will be about 5-10% of users.

You can find 10% of users who contribute 90% of the data.  I would be
really disappointed if only 10% of users accepted the upgrade.

I'd expect to see substantially more users accept the upgrade.  My
hope / expectation is for 95% plus both for users and for data. That
may be unrealistic and / or naive enthusiasm on my part. And I see
those numbers as undeniable support from the community, not as a
minimum requirement.