On 18/03/2015, Kotya Karapetyan <kotya.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:00 PM, moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Why should the page be "converted to a feature page" ? > > Because I would mark a proposal page as such in some place. Otherwise a > stable 10 year-old feature page cannot be easily distinguished from a > proposal created yesterday. I see something like moving the page to a > different namespace or removing a "proposal" status. Not changing the > content or rewriting the page.
Ok, I understand better where you're coming from. But this doesn't gain anything compared to the current workflow. You still have a flag day when the proposal is deemed done/accepted. You're losing the information that it's a design doc under consideration (in my view, tagging schemes remain "under consideration" until they get widely used in the db, regardless of their approved/rejected status). Let's take an example. Somebody writes a proposal about the smoothness key that finally solves all the problems and has unanimous acceptance. If you convert that to a Key:Smoothness page, the wiki becomes completely disconnected from the db. If instead you keep the proposal page as-is, but add links on the key pages with "conforms to / contradicts proposal foo" links for each value, you get the best of both worlds. >> Feature pages and proposals should be writen in parallel, not one >> after the other. > > I am promoting writing a single "feature proposal" page, which, after the > initial discussion, is made just a "feature" page. So nothing is written > one after another. It may be just editing/moving an existing page rather than creating a new one, but you still have one after the other. At no point do you have both the feature page and the proposal available at the same time. Remember that, in my initial suggestion, the feature page and the proposal serve two different purposes : to document existing practices and to document desired practice. I think it's important to clearly distinguish the two in the wiki. The wiki is here to guide, not to direct. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
