[OSM-talk] London Underground stations?

Lars Aronsson lars at aronsson.se
Tue Jul 4 11:38:59 BST 2006


SteveC wrote:

> I had some time unexpectedly yesterday to work on it. If you 
> send me shitty negtive emails after I gave up my time to work on 
> it, questioning my entire motivation how do you expect me to 
> respond? Usually I've given advance warning.

It's great that you had time to work on OSM.  I like that.  But 
it's not ok that your sudden decision stops me from using the time 
that I had to work on OSM.  It really turns me off.  I have a good 
understanding of how systems can suddenly fail and have to be 
repaired, but that was not the case now.  This was maintenance 
that could be planned, and you chose not to plan, but just hack 
away as if this was your personal project.  That's how an artist 
works in his study, but not how a project coordinator works.

You are the founder and the main programmer.  I easily agree that 
your time and priorities are ten or fifty times more important 
than mine, but I'm not the only contributor who gets hurt by your 
lack of planning.  Maybe I'm the only one who sends "shitty 
negative emails" when this happens.  But if I'm the only one who 
feels like this, then this project is far smaller than it should 
be.  And then we have to ask: Why is it still so small, why aren't 
we attracting more contributors?  Why are newcomers turned away?

I asked if Sunday afternoon July 16 is OK for my demo?  I didn't 
get any answer.  Could you please confirm that this is now in your 
calendar?  Or just tell me that you plan downtime, and I will 
rethink how I'm going to present OSM at that meeting.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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