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

[Liz]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>     we've had the changeset feature for quite a while now and I believe 
> it is very helpful in a number of ways.

I thought I'd have a look at the documentation provided for the documentation 
called "changeset comment"

The documentation I found was at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:comment
and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Changesets

and these give a completely different slant on the changeset comment.
They discuss them being optional and note that anything mandatory annoys some 
mappers who will retaliate with garbage comments.

Thanks to the persons who pointed out changeset comments I know realise that I 
am quite free to write anything or nothing useful.
Yes I can see their potential use, however would the other persons in this 
thread who are dogmatic about their use read the existing documentation on the 
documentation.