Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:46:30 +0200, Sebastian Klein wrote: I would vote for keeping the changeset open by default. If the user changes the changeset comment or other tags on subsequent upload, it should ask if a new changeset should be started. I find this arrangement to be overly cumbersome

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, The way I like to think of this is: If you speak to another mapper later that day, and they ask you what you've been up to? and you answer them in one sentence - that's what you should put as a changeset comment. Sounds like a better place for that would be a diary entry. If

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Marko Mäkelä marko.mak...@iki.fi wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:08:56PM -0400, Anthony wrote: The quality of my own changeset comments is absolutely irrelevant in this discussion; let's assume, if it gives you pleasure, that they are all just That might

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Arguably, the changeset comment could be split up in a number of individual tags. Currently, people use it for different things - they say something about the source, about their method, about where they worked, about why

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Anthony wrote: So do I... I just think it's unrealistic to expect it every time. It is also unrealistic to expect good OSM data edits every time. Still it's good if people try, and good if the software helps them with it. IMO the job of the software should be to make sure the person

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: It is also unrealistic to expect good OSM data edits every time. Still it's good if people try, and good if the software helps them with it. Agreed. IMO the job of the software should be to make sure the person knows

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Anthony wrote: And it is something that should be consistent across different editors. Actually this is nothing we need to worry about. JOSM is still settings the standards here. We have 50% of the market. Potlatch the remaining 50%. The other editors don't really count

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Sebastian Klein
Dirk Stöcker wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Anthony wrote: And it is something that should be consistent across different editors. Actually this is nothing we need to worry about. JOSM is still settings the standards here. We have 50% of the market. Potlatch the remaining 50%. The other

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-04 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Sebastian Klein wrote: Actually this is nothing we need to worry about. JOSM is still settings the standards here. We have 50% of the market. Potlatch the remaining 50%. The other editors don't really count at all ATM. Don't forget Merkaartor! It has a fair amount of

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ulf Lamping wrote: Sorry, you overemphasize the importance of changeset comments. I think you underestimate the importance of changeset comments. Please keep in mind, that a changeset comment is *optional*, and there is no misbehaviour if not added. If a user don't want to add

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Sebastian Klein wrote: Personally I only check a don't show this message again-box if I'm 100% sure I understood the message and I really, really don't want it to show up again We have had users on talk-de who had accidentally clicked a don't show this message again box and were

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Julien Balas wrote: I prefere some new data and no comment rather than... nothing. See, that's the difference between the data is more important and the community is more important view. I think that the people count more than the data they contribute, and if their attitude towards the

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: josm-dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:josm-dev-boun...@openstreetmap.org] Namens Julien Balas Verzonden: dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 16:33 Aan: Russ Nelson CC: josm-dev@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD i

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Sebastian Klein
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: I suggest we try to JOSM add some comments by itself: Merkaartor did that, or perhaps does it still. These auto-generated comments are next to worthless. They cannot replace one human being telling another human

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 03.08.2010 18:12, schrieb Anthony: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com  wrote: I don't think that the change to 10 chars is a good idea. E.g. if I only add a tag to a node,

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Ulf, Is it really your strategy to offend anyone not sharing your point of view and build a community on top of that? Please count the number of people who have participated in the discussion on talk, and see how many of them thought that changeset comments are important. If I had the

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Anthony wrote: I asked you for your username, because I wanted to see what you consider to be a good changeset comment. It never struck me that you might not actually consider your own changeset comments to be good. I have given a number of examples that I consider good in the discussion

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Anthony wrote: I asked you for your username, because I wanted to see what you consider to be a good changeset comment.  It never struck me that you might not actually consider your own changeset comments to be

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 04.08.2010 01:19, schrieb Frederik Ramm: Ulf, P.S: Yes, this isn't a theoretical situation. While riding my motorbike, I frequently have a lot of such tiny changes spread over a huge area. Perhaps we can try to be a bit more reasonable about this. That's what I'm trying to do. I have

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-03 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:08:56PM -0400, Anthony wrote: The quality of my own changeset comments is absolutely irrelevant in this discussion; let's assume, if it gives you pleasure, that they are all just That might discredit the messenger, but not change anything about the message. I

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-02 Thread Sebastian Klein
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, I have changed the way JOSM treats changeset comments. This is a politically sensitive topic (see recent discussion on talk list), so I'd value your input. I'm willing to revert the change (applied in r3399) if people think it is for the worse. Tha vast majority

Re: [josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-08-02 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 31 Jul 2010, at 12:23 , Frederik Ramm wrote: I have now changed this in the following way: * The last recently used changeset description is only loaded as default if it was used less than 4 hours ago. Otherwise there is no default. Why 4h and not 1h or 5min? this doesn't help much

[josm-dev] Change to changeset comment handling, RfD

2010-07-31 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I have changed the way JOSM treats changeset comments. This is a politically sensitive topic (see recent discussion on talk list), so I'd value your input. I'm willing to revert the change (applied in r3399) if people think it is for the worse. Tha vast majority of mappers agree that