On 10/17/2012 01:04 AM, Alex Barth wrote:
I really like how activity streams shows easy-to-understand changes
on the map using changemonger [1,2]. At the same time it creates an
alternative break down of changes that is more granular than
changesets.
This diverts attention from _comments on changesets_. This is not
ideal in my mind - these comments on changesets have great potential
to become an even more important communication channel in the
future.
I agree. I will add changeset comments to changeset descriptions on the
demo instance and let's see how this turns out.
One challenge I see with that is the fact that some (most?) people don't
add relevant information to their changesets. But perhaps seeing their
changesets as activities would change that behavior and they would use
changeset comments as a communication channel, not as a required field
in an editor.
I understand activity streams / changemonger suggests a broken up
view of data changes because many changesets are so large that they
are effectively not meaningful. I'd like to understand better why
these changesets are so large.
One thing that became immediately apparent once I managed to get the
whole thing up and running is the fact that changesets really do come in
all shapes and sizes.
Is that a problem? I thought about it and my conclusion is that it's
just another thing that the social/activity stream view could help with.
While I agree with Tom's comment about encouraging people to go out and
survey instead of writing edit bots, I think we should accept and
embrace all changes when thinking about improvements to the site.
Specifically, I thought about adding things like:
1. Changeset size (number of changes) indicator on a single activity view.
2. Changeset size (in terms of bounding box) indicator on a single
activity view.
3. Simple filtering features for (1) and (2). Right now the Activity
Server holds multipoint geometry for every changeset so it's possible to
implement filtering like that (as opposed to considering only the
bounding box of a changeset)
Paweł
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