[OSM-talk] Undo request button for changesets

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:49:11 +0100, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> Anyway, to draw on Frederik's workshop at SOTM the actual revert is in 
> many ways the easy part - the hard thing is establishing the authority 
> to do the revert. In other words the question of who gets to decide that 
> an edit is "bad" and should be reverted.


A revert is itself just a new changeset.
It is not a deletion of an existing changeset.
So any user has the rights to do a revert
if and only of that user has the right to
make an edit.

Same semantics as a revert in Wikpedia
(as long as a complete revert is technically
 possible).

Marcus