[OSM-talk] [josm-dev] Commit message not empty

[Russ Nelson]

On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Pieren wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Frederik Ramm
>> I can only hope that such childish protest behaviour is not the  
>> norm in OSM.
>>
>
> It makes me angry because you and one or two other guys refuse to
> understand that you cannot force people writing meaningful comments

True.  The requirement that the comment be non-null is a reminder to  
get people into the habit.  And just as some people are putting "fuck  
you" into their JOSM changesets, more people (I speculate) are leaving  
their Potlatch comments empty.  So if you ignore the meaningless  
comments, and consider null to be equally meaningless, then (again, I  
speculate) JOSM is getting more meaningful comments.

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