[OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

[Pieren]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> I believe one of the issues here is the categorization of the separate
> account requirement as political, when I suspect most would see it as a
> purely administrative/technical matter and the textual change as a
> clarification of existing policy well within the remit of the DWG.

Here is the lack of understanding. Since the policy is not defined by
technical reasons, nor by consensus, neither by "The" community (OSM
is a sum of communities: local contributors, devs, admins, data
consumers, etc), it is fixed by one or part of the communities
participating to the project. At the end, it is really perceived as a
pure administrative/political matter by (some) other communities.

Pieren