[OSM-talk] OSM.org Header Change Proposals

[Tom Hughes]

You explicitly encouraged voting and as has repeatedly been
said before software design decisions are not made by who can
get the most people to add a thumbs up emoji.

I haven't been following it in detail but the wiki ticket
seems to have been pretty heated this week judging by the
nunber of comments.

The other one I don't think has really been looked at in
detail yet so I'm not sure why you feel the need to seek a
crowd of supporters for it.

Tom

On 05/02/2021 23:19, Seth Deegan wrote:
> I felt the proposal was going to die, so I wanted to extend it's notice 
> to other members of the OSM community.
> 
> I also realized this might be a larger change, so I should have given 
> notice to more parts of the OSM community in the first place.
> 
> I disagree with locking discussion. Proposals that ask for significant 
> debatable changes will always foster a lot of conversation (I've seen 
> plenty before).
> 
> Limiting people's ability to share their opinion on the matter -  the 
> reason why I posted this - is not the answer. The influx in responses 
> will only be temporary.
> 
> lectrician1 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1>
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:03 PM Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu 
> <mailto:tom at compton.nu>> wrote:
> 
>     On 05/02/2021 22:32, Seth Deegan wrote:
>      > I am proposing two changes to the heading on openstreetmap.org
>     <http://openstreetmap.org>
>      > <https://openstreetmap.org <https://openstreetmap.org>>:
>      >
>      >   * Adding the *Wiki *as a link (a major community resource).
>     Proposal
>      >   
>       <https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3041 <https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3041>>
>      >   * Removing the *Export *button and moving it's contents to the
>     *Share*
>      >     button right of the map (it's barely used by contributors, the
>      >     primary user base of the website). Proposal
>      >   
>       <https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3040 <https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3040>>
>      >
>      > Please read/comment/vote /on the issues/ (not here) about what
>     you think
>      > of the proposals.
> 
>     Trying to stoke up a mob is not going to achieve anything.
> 
>     Please try and understand that not every ticket will produce the
>     result you want though in this case both tickets are still being
>     discussed as far as I can see.
> 
>     I have locked dicussion on both tickets for now until people can
>     calm down a bit.
> 
>     Tom
> 
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>     Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu <mailto:tom at compton.nu>)
>     http://compton.nu/ <http://compton.nu/>
> 


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