[josm-dev] how does the transition to tested work ?

[Karl Guggisberg]

Yes, conflict resolution today is clearly not well-designed for mass 
resolution of conflicts. Openening a dialog,
resolving the conflict, and closing the dialog again, is very tedious if 
you have to resolve more than, say, 20 conflicts.

This is a major issue which I think should be adressed soon. It won't 
replace the current feature for resolving
an individual conflict, but it should complete it with better support 
for mass resolution.

Regards
Karl

Am 08.03.2010 17:39, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 16:30, Dirk Stöcker<openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>  wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>>      
>>>> for me this is really a bug not an enhancement. Josm is used for semi
>>>> automatic imports a lot and this creates big mess of duplicates on
>>>> server/network interrupts. I know it wasn't designed for that but Josm is
>>>> just such a great workhorse.
>>>> on normal editing this can leave a user with  conflicts after a partial
>>>> upload, maybe we should add a comment that uploads should be done in 1
>>>> transaction only until this bug is fixed.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway thanks for the great work and it's better to have a stable again.
>>>> Josm is improving big with every release:)
>>>>          
>>> The problem with recommending that is that the only reason for using
>>> one object at a time uploading is to narrow down conflicts you may be
>>> having, right now due to this bug at the cost of adding lots of
>>> duplicates to the database.
>>>        
>> To have better conflict solving you may use "Update modified" from first
>> menu. This will produce all conflicts in one single run and allows them to
>> fix in one go.
>>      
> Yes, but due to the bad interface for conflict resolution in JOSM this
> isn't an option sometimes. There isn't support for mass-resolution of
> similar conflicts (I've filed bugs for this) so you run into
> situations where you can either:
>
>     * Solve 300 conflicts which are of the same nature manually. Which
> requires for each one:
>       1. Click on an item in the conflict list
>       2. Move to tags/whatever in the dialog
>       3. Click merge your/remote changes
>       4. Apply
>       5 Repeat
>
> After I'm done with that I'll have manually clicked UI elements at
> least 300*4 times or so.
>
> So instead of doing that when I run into it I just cut my losses and
> try to upload at least /some/ of my data. I do this by turning on
> single-object upload, trying to select subsets of the dataset and see
> if I can upload them without conflicts.
>
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