[OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

[Michael Reichert]

Hi,

Am 2018-01-12 um 17:01 schrieb Tobias Knerr:
> On 12.01.2018 15:39, Andy Townsend wrote:
>> More seriously, any automatic use of OSM messages is problematical
>> because it devalues the messages that we want people to actually read -
>> the ones that are composed by and sent be a human, and have actual
>> useful information in them
> 
> I agree. Right now, messages and comments sent via OSM channels tend to
> be written by humans for a specific individual recipient, which gives
> them a very good signal-to-noise ratio. I enjoy that a lot and would
> like to keep things that way.

We could introduce a special kind of changeset discussion comment which
does trigger email notification. Any comment which is automatically
generated should be such a "silent comment".

Best regards

Michael


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