[OSM-talk] Changeset comment function

[Lester Caine]

On 02/11/14 11:48, Andy Street wrote:
>> > A much wanted and needed feature.
> I'm not attempting to disparage the hard work of those who contributed
> to this feature but it is not immediately apparent to me how this
> feature should be used. Perhaps one of those people who needed this
> feature could give a brief description of why it is useful and when it
> would be appropriate to use this method rather than sending a PM?

Personally I find this a missing link in discussion on changes that have
been made to the data. A private message may be appropriate if you do
not want public discussion, but often like the current debate on the
talk-gb list about 'automatic updates', people who were not originally
involved spot problems that they can either add their own fix for, but a
note on the problematic original change may well flag other similar
corrections which private messaging can never initiate.

I would probably go on to propose that grouping a large number of
similar but data wise unrelated changes be flagged as bad practice so
that elements of a change CAN be discussed better via this mechanism.

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