This attitude: “to do well we would need people responsible and there isn’t any; you can do your thing without OSM infrastructure so why bother; nobody died, stop your hype and comply” — is why we’re still with API 0.6 ten years after it was introduced.
Ilya > On 22 Apr 2019, at 09:35, Jochen Topf <joc...@remote.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:03:40AM +0300, Ilya Zverev wrote: >> In my research of API 0.6 (which turned ten years old yesterday) I've >> stumbled on this page: >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6/Crowd_sourced_Testing >> >> It was deleted 7 years ago. And this is a disaster. The page was an >> important milestone in our history: authors, dates, items on it could bring >> some more information on how our current API was rolled out. Nothing is >> left. > > It was deleted an yet you have found it. So not a huge desaster after > all. > >> Please, could we have a deletion policy in our wiki that clearly states "No >> obsolete pages here", forbidding deletion of anything except spam or >> otherwise harmful pages? Deleting our history is plain vandalism, no better >> than physically destroying pieces of human history displayed in museums. > > Isn't that a bit of hype here... > >> It's not like we're pressed for disk space there. > > No, we aren't. But we are pressed for time and human attention. Of we > had curators who keep important things organized and findable we could > keep things forever. But as it is, all the obsolete crap keeps us from > finding and working with what we need now. > >> Thank internet gods for the Internet Archive, > > Not the gods but some good people who had a good idea. Let them do their > job and keep the history and lets do our job and keep the momentum in > the project instead of spending our time looking back. > > Jochen > -- > Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org https://www.jochentopf.com/ +49-351-31778688 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
