[OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

[Patrick Kilian]

Hi all,

> I know this first hand. Many (if not most or all) of the key people
> in OSM are feeling drained, distracted and upset. Some are talking of
> hiatus or resign. These are the key people who write code, build
> things, maintain things and run our working groups.
I'm not sure if I (still) qualify for "key people" as I have woefully
little time to maintain the osmarender stylesheets. Mobilemap and
Tagstat, two other OSM-based projects by me, also suffer from that.

But I'm certainly at a point where I'm close to stop spending time as a
mapper and as a coder on OSM, because for every minute I spend on fun
stuff I have to spend five minutes deleting stupid emails and discussing
things over and over again.

So in short: +1 from me for a code of conduct and stronger measures
against trolls eating up our time.


Patrick "Petschge" Kilian