I can see why some people would find the comment requirement annoying, but coming from using svn for source code it seems very natural to me. I added a bunch of nodes for shops in my town last night and had no trouble typing "add some stores in Lower Village, and move some" or something like that. As Frederik said it took almost no time compared to placing and tagging the points.
The deeper consequence is that this mechanism will probably lead me to make edits in logical groups. This is very similar to the "clean changeset" notion in subversion. Not that we're going to have stable branches of the data, and merge changes to map releases, but when we talk about browsing changesets and possibly reverting them, it makes sense to have related changes grouped together. I browsed history for my area, and there are mostly global-scale edits with huge bounding boxes. Really I'd like to see some sort of "changeset has a node or way that is in or crossed my query bounding box" since I think most of these global edits do not change anything in my area. Having comments explaining the purpose of such changes would be nice, so hopefully that will happen. I think I was running into the "changeset still open" behavior and didn't quite understand it- I did several uploads and was seeing the list of previous changes in the comment prompt even though they weren't modified. I was only running r1526 though and will see if that persists in r1541.
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