[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Changeset comment list on the profile (#842)

[Frederik Ramm]

I agree that the naming is a bit unfortunate. We stumbled into this because we were all used to having "commit comments" in software revision control systems, so we thought it would be appropriate to call what you specify when you upload data a "changeset comment". Colloquially we say "I commented his changeset" and then what we really did was not place a changeset comment but discussion entry. 

I would welcome it if we could improve this, although "remark" to my mind would no be an improvement - it sounds too casual. Something like "statement" would capture the importance better but still I don't like it. Also, I fear that the term "changeset comment" is meanwhile so widely used (in lots of introductory material, editors, wiki etc., and also as @pnorman pointed out, the tag is called "comment") that the ship might have sailed.

Perhaps we could weasel around the issue by calling things "the initial changeset comment" (or "the uploader's changeset comment") and "other changeset comments" ;) 

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