Hi Serge , I am sorry for being negative. I am feeling grumpy from the building import ruckus, I probably just need to take break from this for bit. The US import process is clearly borked right now, and I will support 110% you and anybody that is trying to fix it. Please ignore my snarky email(s) and accept my apologies.
Thanks Jason. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jason Remillard <remillard.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Serge, > > You are tougher man than me :-) > > How about this, nobody on the committee that has not personally done > at least 1 large import. If you do that, I am happy. Like I said, > these imports require a bunch of specialized skills, it would be good > to build up an expertise in it. > > Thanks > Jason. > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Jason Remillard >> <remillard.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> If you setup a user group to "help" with the imports, I think it will >>> be overrun with people that don't like all imports or are terrified of >>> them being screwed up. >> >> I haven't received any negative feedback about this committe except >> for yours, so I think maybe your judgement's a bit premature. >> >>> It will be like the UN human rights committee. >>> More hostility, but now with an official sounding group name. In a >>> sane world, there would be mappers that would be dedicated to imports. >> >> You seem to have your mind made up about a group that hasn't had its >> first meeting. >> >>> They would build up expertise in licensing, data conversion, batch >>> imports, large scale reverts, OSM processes, merging, efficiently >>> communicating with locals, etc. However, if you came out and said "I >>> do only imports", you would be getting hazed by the two groups of >>> people all of the time. Does not sound like fun to me. >> >> Only do things you enjoy, so if it doesn't sound like fun to you, then >> I say don't join. >> >> - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
