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

[Anthony]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anthony wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I have given a number of examples that I consider good in the discussion
> over on talk; but I also agree with the examples others have posted there.
> An ideal changeset comment, in my opinion, would convey the what, where, and
> why of an edit.
>
> The quality of my own changeset comments is absolutely irrelevant in this
> discussion; let's assume, if it gives you pleasure, that they are all just
> "...". That might discredit the messenger, but not change anything about the
> message. I think that it is important to keep the two separate, the message
> and the messenger.

"minor haiti geometry repair"
"fix source typo"
"fix self-intersecting boundary"
"move lake from one relation to other"
"remove forest self-intersection"

Is that you?