Hi, On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:17:06 -0400 Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > > On 21/03/12 08:26, Simon Poole wrote: > > > >> See http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Rebuild_Plan > > > > I think that date is very unlikely to be met. > > Putting it a little differently, how confident is the Rebuild Team > that all of those tasks can be accomplished and thoroughly tested > following that schedule?
I don't believe that this schedule will work; it is a schedule that was basically created backwards: "We want to finish by April 1st, then what deadlines do we have to make for that to work". I have for the past few weeks encouraged everyone to work diligently instead to a deadline pulled out of thin air. Good progress has been made but more time will be needed to do things right. The "April 1st" proclamation did a lot of good in the past months because people understood that we were serious, but clinging to it *now* is likely to lead an unnecessarily downtime and sloppy work, which on top of all is more stress for everyone involved than need be. I'm committed to help doing the necessary stuff to get the license change done and to do it properly. I'm not, however, committed to a politically motivated deadline that serves no other purpose than for OSMF to be able to say "look we met our deadline." This is just silly and needs to stop. It is neither good leadership nor good management; it is an embarrassment. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk