On 31 July 2010 23:25, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > No. Equally valuable. But they are more. Only one person makes the edits, > but more than one person look at the edits.
Sure, if on average more than one person views the changeset information, is this really happening though? > All wanted was to say: Please folks, add meaningful changeset comments. I > think it is plain obvious that they are very useful, not only to me > personally. Of about 20 people participating in this thread, only three seem > to be of the opinion that changeset comments are a waste of time. Yes, > people have their opinions and yes, some might be of that opinion, but > luckily it is a small minority. And how many don't set meaningful tags and didn't contribute to this thread? > I think there is a wide range of useful changeset comments; you're > misrepresenting my statement if you say I was complaining about people not > commenting "excactly how I think they should". I'm just asking for > meaningful changeset comments. So far no one has given a reasonable example for changesets with diverse activities, so please be more specific. > No. Liz, helpfully, pointed out that the Wiki did not reflect what the > community expects, as has been proven by this thread. I merely amended the > Wiki to reflect that. If you carefully read the version history you will see > that even before I made the change, the Wiki definitely said that the > comment was used in many places; it just wasn't quite so obvious that people > actually use it a lot. Back to lies, damn lies and statistics, 20 v 3 out of 5-10k active editors, it's not a very good sample size to be extrapolating from, if anything it shows a minority have a strong opinion one way or the other, and the rest just don't care. > I'm not even starting to discuss Key:UUID here. Who said anything about that, I was talking about your spurious comment on the emergency=* thread... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk