[OSM-talk] An open letter to OSMF board members.
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Tue May 31 23:24:13 UTC 2022
Hi,
I think I've said that in one of those endless diary discussions -
almost everyone who complains about something in openstreetmap-carto is
just unhappy that they don't get their pet feature rendered.
In order to provide acceptable cartography, massive gatekeeping is
required on the part of openstreetmap-carto maintainers. For every new
feature they accept, they should really throw old two old features,
otherwise the map becomes everything else but a map.
(We had a map style once where everyone could add their own features in
SVN, with nobody doing any gatekeeping. Guess how that turned out.)
I'm happy to listen to anyone who has any critique of
openstreetmap-carto but NOT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE UNHAPPY BECAUSE THEIR
FEATURE DID NOT GET RENDERED.
If you are one of those people who are unhappy because their feature did
not get rendered, I will assume that any other criticism you have to
offer (other than that your feature did not get rendered) is just trying
to get revenge.
If you're trying to abuse the code-of-conduct system to bully people in
the hope of ultimately getting your pet feature rendered, then shame on
you - this is not what a code of conduct is for.
As for replacing the maintainers - if I understand you correctly you're
asking the board to pay people to do the maintenance. I would agree to
that if that maintenance is guided by the principle I mentioned above -
for every additional feature they accept, throw out two old features.
Because if what you're asking is for the board to pay money in order to
have more mellow maintainers who will happily accept a 348th crappy icon
just so that some niche interest group can have their feature "on the
main map" then that would be making OSM worse not better.
Bye
Frederik
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