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

[Anthony]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> But I think it is the obligation of the editor to make it perfectly
> clear to the user that their edits *will* be viewed as "less cooperative" by
> a large majority of the community if they don't carry a proper changeset
> comment - if not at least an *effort* is made.

I think the obligation is on you to show that this is the case.

There's a world of difference between "good changeset comments are
helpful, useful, valuable" (which is pretty much true by definition,
if the comment wasn't "helpful, useful, valuable", it wouldn't be
"good") and "a large majority of the community *will* view people's
edits as 'less cooperative'" if they don't provide a good changeset
comment (with what, every edit, 10% of edits, 5% of edits?).

> That's what the discussion on *this* list is about - not whether changeset
> comments are good or bad, or whether Frederik is an evil dictator who wants
> the project to cater to his personal taste, or (as was suggested to me in a
> personal email) whether or not Frederik uses meaningful changeset comments
> himself.

I asked you for your username, because I wanted to see what you
consider to be a good changeset comment.  It never struck me that you
might not actually consider your own changeset comments to be good.