Russ Nelson wrote: > > > > Yeah, OK Dave, we've got the message, you don't free-format tags. > > > > > > +1 > > > > -1. Don't confuse anarchy with chaos. SteveC is our leader (and > > should behave as such by Giving Advice), but he's only our leader so > > far as he gives Good Advice. > > I wish to be more plain. I think that SteveC should be taking a more > active role in decisions. He and just I had a conversation in which > he explained that he's tried doing that, and just gets flamed for > being overbearing or evil or trying to push Cloudmade's interests. > > This is wrong. There are times when any project needs leadership. > It's unreasonable for us to expect that every open source project > leader will be willing to subject himself to ad-hominem arguments. > We need to stand up for our leaders, and when they're being abused, Where in that thread was he being abused?
> we > need to defend them. If we don't do that, then we'll get what we > deserve: no leadership. > > I'm tired of this silly true/false 1/0 yes/no up/down left/right > in/out fore/aft port/starboard debate/debacle. It's trivial, it's > stupid, we could just as easily toss a coin as engage in any rational > debate about how binary values should be expressed. > When it prevents flickr etc from displaying properly then I don't see it as trivial > This is just wrong. If SteveC says that "mountain=green" means that > first there is a mountain, and that "mountain=blue" means there is no > mountain, then damnit, we should do it that way. > Oh my Lord, you've completely missed the point. In relation to the boolean problem OSM is saying that blue & green are the *same* thing. Cheers Dave F. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
