On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > The "leave empty if unsure" makes it easy for users to ignore the > concept and I don't want to make this easy for them.
have a look at wikipedia's commit messages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges) which are optional. well, they default to the section heading you're editing, but that doesn't translate to OSM... it seems many people do end up putting sensible messages in the commit, so it looks like they're learning to use it rather than ignore it. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Dermot McNally > > I think that empty comments are better than innappropriate comments. > "guessed" comments will be hard to implement and will most probably > not help better than crappy comments. commit comments are very useful for software version control systems. but even working with experienced developers i've seen meaningless commit messages. writing good commit messages is a skill in itself. > I would suggest the following : > each time you start JOSM and first time you leave the comment field > empty, pop-up a warning messagebox explaining how comments are > important for collaboration, although not mandatory. this kind of nag-ware could be useful. make it an "expert" option to disable it entirely and have the argument for good commit messages in the FAQ section for disabling it. if people ask on the mailing list they can be referred to that, rather than people arguing back and forth over whether its better to force people to eat their greens or not. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
