Here, let's have some numbers. As of the last changeset dump (Feb. 28th) iD: total changesets: 1,744,610 changesets with a comment: 745,774 43% comment rate
Potlatch2: total changesets: 3,594,415 changesets with comment: 1,971,298 54% comment rate JOSM: total changesets: 10,289,418 changesets with comment: 96,28,498 93% comment rate iD certainly gives you the opportunity to enter a comment but is probably the least obvious about it. P2 pops up a dialog box asking for a message but doesn't complain if you don't put one in. And of course JOSM gets rather angry with you if you don't put in a sufficiently long comment. What these numbers don't show is how many comments are useless repeated "fixed problems" ones. JOSM auto-fills the comment with whatever you used last time. And actually I believe iD does as well. Interestingly, P2 would have had a 57% comment rate but over 88,000 of its changesets have a comment tag that has a blank value. iD has 22,000 of these as well. JOSM only has 81. Toby On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Am 06/mar/2014 um 16:04 schrieb Tom Hughes <[email protected]>: > > > > For the love of god, no. > > > +1, the point of a changeset comment is to give information that is not > contained in the changes itself (eg about the why, like "removed restaurant > because it is closed" etc) while everything intrinsic is already there and > there is no need to repeat it in natural language. > > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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