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

[Sebastian Klein]

Matthias Julius wrote:
> 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

+1

I would vote for keeping the changeset open by default. If the user 
changes the changeset comment or other tags on subsequent upload, it 
should ask if a new changeset should be started.


Sebastian