I like the idea of voting to praise a good documentation. The tools are available in the wiki, so why not try it out on a non debatable tagging scheme (maybe landcover wouldn't be a good idea for a try). Yves
Le 4 décembre 2017 18:47:00 GMT+01:00, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> a écrit : >Hi Roland, > >On 04.12.2017 09:42, Roland Olbricht wrote: >> We recently had an experienced and productive community member, Ilya, >> putting a lot of time in a Wiki Proposal just to see the whole >process >> fail. > >there's an important distinction here: It's Ilya's proposal that has >failed (for now at least), not the proposal process. That proposals are >sometimes rejected is an inherent part of that process. > >I've written several proposals over the years, and while some of them >have been accepted, I've always learned something from the ones that >weren't. Just because I'm an experienced contributor doesn't mean all >my >ideas are great – and the proposal process is a way to weed out those >of >my ideas that aren't. > >I'm not trying to suggest that the proposal system cannot possibly be >improved upon. However, Ilya's proposal was pretty unusual as far as >proposals go: It had a couple specific flaws which you already hinted >at >(such as trying to do too much at once and writing in a "documentation >page" format instead of describing the changes to be voted on), so it's >likely not the best basis for generalizing observations to the proposal >process as a whole. > >> I suggest to replace the Proposal process by three more specialized >> and therefore much simpler processes. They are structured by what >they >> can affect. >[...] >> === Distinguished Documentation === [...] >> === Wiki Cleanup === [...] >> === Tag Disambiguation === > >At the moment, the proposal process isn't really intended for things >that _only_ affect the wiki, it's always an attempt to come to an >agreement on how to tag things in the database. So most of these items >seem to be outside the scope of what proposals are suitable for. >Generally, I don't believe a democratic process is the best way to >produce well-written documentation. > >Tobias > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >talk@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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