[josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD
Julien Balas
julien at krilin.org
Tue Aug 3 15:33:09 BST 2010
i use to work on a system where "comments" where mandatory to validate an
order.
most of the people use "X" as a comment.
then the IT guys add a rule forbidding "X"
then users use "."
then IT add a rule "at least 3 chars"
then user use "bla" as comments
and so on, and so on.
as far as i don't like empty comments, i think that if a user quit OSM
because a changeset comment is mandatory it's too bad.
I prefere some new data and no comment rather than... nothing.
--
JB
2010/8/3 Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com>
> Frederik Ramm writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > > Sorry, you overemphasize the importance of changeset comments.
> >
> > I think you underestimate the importance of changeset comments.
>
> Trouble is that you can't force people to provide good comments. You
> can force them to provide comments, but short of introducing
> artificial intelligence or actual human moderation into comment
> submission, you have to accept what people give.
>
> Anything you try to force people to do, they will rebel against.
>
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