[OSM-talk] How to teach novices about optimal changeset size?

[Dave F]

This a purely an iD problem. It should be down to their core programmers 
to sort it out.
We should be encouraging users, especially newbies, to save frequently. 
Potlatch does this without the problem of numerous changesets.

DaveF

On 17/01/2018 13:26, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
> Many new users have a habit of e.g. sending one or few objects per 
> changeset, resulting in a dozen or even more changesets per day. 
> Obviously this makes them PITA to review quickly in Achavi or whatever 
> tool you use.
>
> This habit is probably caused by non-knowledge of how auto-save works 
> in iD (which makes the work reasonably secure), as well as just not 
> knowing better thus forming their own judgement.
>
> How should we teach about optimal changeset size? This is quite tricky 
> - how we would define it?
>
> Can the iD nudge users towards better practice? (Linking to Good 
> changeset comments wiki page would be useful as well)
>
> Michał
>
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