[OSM-talk] Setting comment on existing changeset

[Roeland Douma]

I was thinking about this as well. And this should not be that hard to 
implement since the API allows for this kind of actions. Some checks have to 
be build in that you can't change other peoples comments but that should not 
be that hard now that we also have uids.

Maybe if I have some spare time I'll implement this as a separate service. 
However it would be better to directly integrate it into osm.org

--Roeland

On Wednesday 22 April 2009 16:34:40 Ed Avis wrote:
> Could the web interface allow changing the comment on an
> already-uploaded changeset?  Similar to how version control systems
> like Subversion allow you to set the log message on an old commit,
> even though the commit itself is unchangeable.
>
> Ideally we'd all type in the changeset message when uploading, but you
> may miss out that step (e.g. Merkaartor does not automatically prompt
> for a message) and in any case the best message is often not known
> until later.  For example you might want to re-label an earlier
> changeset as being a mistake that was later reverted.  Of course there
> are also the changes made with the old API, and grouped into
> changesets at the upgrade.
>
> I imagine that only the original uploader would have permission to set
> the comments.