[OSM-talk] this has to stop: iD user mistakes all over the place

Tom MacWright tom at macwright.org
Wed Feb 11 16:47:42 UTC 2015


How is an open source project that was open source on day one, was publicly
communicated from day one, heavily explained in time-consuming technical
blog posts, has 77 contributors, and has accepted hundreds of pull requests
"tightly held."

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Tom MacWright <tom at macwright.org> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, experience suggests that there's relatively little that a
>>> discussion on on the "talk" mailing list is going to be able to do here. Help
>>> with development or give productive feedback on the issue tracker.
>>
>>
> Productive feedback on the iD issue tracker follows a similar trajectory
> to that on the talk list.  It's not really working there either.
> There seem to be fairly deep seated differences in the philosophy of
> on-boarding new mappers, and those reflect themselves in iD's user
> interface.  Since iD was awarded prime spot on osm, and since it's
> development is tightly held, everyone else is left with no outlet other
> than to complain.
>
> OSM is a very open project in general, but iD's development is very
> tightly held and opinionated.
>
>
>
>> FUD around editors has been discussed to death and it's clear that
>>> writing more emails won't do anything.
>>
>>
> "Fear uncertainty and doubt" implies the criticism is invalid.
>
>
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