[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)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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