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

[David Earl]

On 31/07/2010 10:50, John Smith wrote:
> On 31 July 2010 19:24, David Earl<david at frankieandshadow.com>  wrote:
>> I don't understand your attitude at all: it hardly takes a moment to add a
>> helpful comment, but many minutes or hours to make the change itself. It is
>> hardly a burden.
>
> You gave a very simplistic comment example, how about something more
> likely to occur by people doing large numbers of changes, for example,
> realigning roads, fixing up names from photos, drawing in schools and
> parks and playgrounds and buildings and pitches and ....
>
> How exactly are you supposed to compress all the possible changes
> you've made, into a single line, and not spend a similar amount of
> time documenting what you did, why you did it, who paid for your time
> and other expenses, what the weather was like, how many birds were
> tweating, and any jokes you may have receive in an email while doing
> all that...
>
> Frankly I'd rather spend my time mapping than telling everyone to the
> nth degree what my life story about why I made a change.

sad, sad, sad to be so selfish towards your colleagues.

David