[OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

[Heiko Jacobs]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> It is so much easier to read a short 
> phrase about an edit than having to look at the area and history of 
> affected objects.

It sounds like a nice feature!
Anyone should code a possibility to comment changesets!


;-)

> One group ...

> The other group ...

You have forgotten the third group ... my group ... ;-)

I'm "grown up" as OSM Mapper using potlatch live edit.
And I still prefer it.
And you may edit live millions of nodes and ways without being
asked to comment a changeset.
So potlatch user may call comments a nice new feature, see above ;-)

I just searching around a little bit and, yeah, found a possibility
to give a comment to a live edit, too, but it is connected with
closing it. Because it is not necessary to close a changeset
if you end editing live (clicking in "View" for changing to the
slippy map works fine, too ;-) ) it might be, that this feature
is used seldomely (for examples: look at my changesets ;-) )

The number of commented changeset may arise if someone
changes potlatch, that the possibility of setting a comment
appears more visible and not only hidden behind a menu and
not only connected with closing it ...

Mueck