[OSM-dev] Reversion tool for new users

[Serge Wroclawski]

Andrew,

Speaking as someone who does reversions, reversions are tricky. Doing
them in an automated way does not always get you what you expect if
there's been an interim edit, and even knowing if there's going to be
a problem with an automated reversion requires a bit of deep
introspection onto the changeset.

So maybe the right solution is (as has been proposed before) is
changeset comments and flags.

- Serge

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Hain <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Every so often a new user asks how to revert their editing mistake. It would
> be useful if they could do this themselves, which we don’t have suitable
> tools for. Frederik’s scripts aren’t aimed at new users and Potlatch 1 needs
> the browser’s address bar to be fiddled with.
>
> Perhaps we could offer them a tool for them to revert their own edits. This
> doesn’t need a Potlatch-style deletion history API call because it it can
> use trace through one user’s changesets to offer one to revert.
>
> --
> Andrew
>
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