[OpenLayers-Users] using OpenStreetMap provider on OpenLayers

[Erik Uzureau]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Christopher Schmidt <
crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:45:28AM -0400, Erik Uzureau wrote:
> > not sure if i even really think this is appropriate or not, but I have
> made
> > a ticket for this here:
> >
> > http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1781
> >
> > so the debate can at least be brought into the ticket's  comments field.
>
> A comment re: Open Source project discussions:
>
> One of the key points that I took from Karl Fogel's book on Open Source
> is on the topic of discussions in the mailing list:
>
>
> http://producingoss.com/en/bug-tracker.html#bug-tracker-mailing-list-interaction
>
> "Make sure the bug tracker doesn't turn into a discussion forum.
> Although it is important to maintain a human presence in the bug
> tracker, it is not fundamentally suited to real-time discussion. Think
> of it rather as an archiver, a way to organize facts and references to
> other discussions, primarily those that take place on mailing lists."
>
> I appreciate you taking the time to make the ticket, but if we actually
> have disagreements, theyre probably best handled through the mailing
> list, and the result moved to the bug tracker as an archive, as a
> general rule.
>
> Just something I thought I'd mention,
>

Totally, good point chris. My main motiv. for making the ticket is that i've
now heard
this mentioned several times.

Often things get tossed around on the list but until they are codified in
ticket form,
they are not really taken seriously.

I totally agree, though, that discussion should of whether or not this is a
valid thing
should be *here* and not there.

e




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> Christopher Schmidt
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