[OSM-talk] Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?
Andy Allan
gravitystorm at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 14:20:08 GMT 2008
On Jan 16, 2008 2:09 PM, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at sspaeth.de> wrote:
> Robin Paulson wrote:
> > On 14/01/2008, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> >> would it make sense to create a new mailing list - say
> >> "tagging at openstreetmap.org" or so - to which all tag proposals and
> >> requests for comments/votes could be directed, and reclaim talk@ for
> >> informal community chat?
>
> I am all for it. And I am still of the opinion that more people would
> vote if there was an easier voting mechanism.
>
> I had already implemented a prototype of an e-mail voting system, where
> proposals would be send in mail (in addition to be put on the wiki) and
> people would just have to hit "reply" and add a +1, -1, or 0 (abstain)
> to the text in order to vote, but got distracted later on.
> The results would then be displayed in a web interface.
>
> This would get us more than the usual 3-6 votes per proposal, I know
> that I would vote more if it were that easy.
>
> What do people think of this?
Only if the voting emails go to a different list. Happy to read a
weekly summary of what's going in the world of tagging discussions,
but given the number of them I wouldn't want to see every vote being
announced separately on talk@
Cheers,
Andy
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