[josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

[Matthias Julius]

Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com> writes:

> On 31 Jul 2010, at 12:23 , Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>> I have now changed this in the following way:
>> 
>> * The last recently used changeset description is only loaded as
>> default if it was used less than 4 hours ago. Otherwise there is no
>> default.
>> 
>
> Why 4h and not 1h or 5min? this doesn't help much to avoid
> mistakes. You should at least provide it as a variable in the advanced
> options. personally I'd set it very low to avoid mistakes which are
> worse than bad or empty comments

Doesn't that field have auto-completion with previous values?  Then it
does not need to have a default value when uploading a new changeset
except when the new changeset is started because the old one has
expired on the server.

Matthias