[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

[Steve Doerr]

On 17/11/2017 20:50, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> One important aspect was missing in the announcement. The tool's new 
> name is a tiny part of a much bigger set of community suggested and 
> requested changes. Fully ignoring functionality changes that many 
> community members suggested is biased.
>
> Mechanical edit claim was also never justified -- saying it's a 
> mechanical edit tool doesn't fit with the community's own definition, 
> per wiki. Just the other day the importance of using the right word 
> was mentioned - when I allegedly missed the word "deprecated". Let's 
> keep things consistent, and not dilute or change the meaning of 
> existing terms to fit the immediate agenda.
>

+1


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