[Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

[Richard Welty]

On 5/1/11 2:35 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Richard Weait<richard at weait.com>  wrote:
>> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Alan Millar<grunthos503 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>> Yeah...  Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate newbies, too.
>> I think that is different in a significant way.  It is much easier to
>> "fix a newbie" than to fix an import.  And when you do "fix a newbie"
>> You've not only fixed their mapping to date, but also their mapping in
>> the future, and even the future mapping of the mappers they meet.
> Yes, this message has nothing to do with newbies. If newbies are doing
> large scale imports then that is just another layer of "DONOTWANT" on
> top of existing problems with imports. Imports are *HARD* do to right.
> Any import needs to be done by experienced mappers who have
> *significant* experience in manual mapping. In my very strongly held
> opinion.
and as i've said before, no import should be done without a plan,
and the plan _must_ include QC procedures and provision for a
rollback if the QC fails.

a newbie shouldn't be doing imports. an experienced mapper who
fails to do necessary QC should be taken out back and shot.

richard