I liked the rules Paul Miller proposed on the talk list. I don't understand what it would take to implement a revert option, but expect it would be messy, especially if you needed to revert a revert. I guess it gets worse when you need to roll back older changes with other people since changed (eg bad user mis-aligned a freeway then a good user corrected the highway reference tag).
I like the idea of simply putting an account into a locked mode so that they still exist in OSMland and assuming the changes were innocent/naive then they can be re-instated once they've had some hand holding. It would be nice if josm/potlatch/osmweb had an option to alert the user when they login that their work is under peer review they MUST contact xxxx before they can continue doing work, ie, be friendly and splash them a warning message given some people ignore their emails. I think it'll take some time refining the framework as incidents occur. Jeff. ________________________________ From: John Smith <[email protected]> To: Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 3 September, 2009 8:23:46 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Brainstorming: Simple Revert-Tools 2009/9/3 Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]>: > makes sense to sort out a policy now > currently if i see something which may be a problem i identify the mapper, > message them through OSM and hopefully have a discussion > i try to be open in this communication, not starting with accusations etc > because i want to open communication not start a war. > (recipients of my messages might see this differently ;-) ) > welcome them to OSM, suggest they join the mailing list, and say that i've > noticed their edits in X > and finally get around to what i really want to say > and the other thing is not to do it when hot under the collar after seeing > your work changed, but wait a day..... That's the general case of mistakes, not intentional vandalism, and it's vandalism that started this thread on the talk list. Assume they don't reply, what then? _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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