Frederik Ramm writes: > 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'd agree with you, call a lack of comment a lack of data, and then say that the community is too important to go around pissing people off by enforcing formulaic requirements on changeset comments. > community is "I have better things to do than explain my mapping to you > geeks", then I'd rather not have their data. Maybe you should create a fork of OSM which only has data that comes with meaningful changeset comments? But oh, you'd lose too much data that way. So maybe the data *is* more important? The trouble here is that you can't insist on meaningful comments because who's to say what's meaningful? Okay, so then the tool insists on formulaic comments, but that doesn't work because people who feel that comments aren't necessary will simply satisfy the formula. And that doesn't help *at all*. Imposing formulaic requirements of any sort is an attempt to create community norms using technology. Has that ever worked? Anywhere? -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
