Martijn van Oosterhout schrieb: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Ulf Lamping > <ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> But, what puzzles me most (if I understand it correct) is that only JOSM >> has this policy. If it's such a vital interest to the probject, why >> doesn't the API forces the comments? It's really strange if you add >> something in Potlatch you *can* add a comment (but it doesn't even seem >> to be obvious that you can do it), while JOSM forces you to add one. > > As the person who wrote that bit of code, it happened in the API 0.6 > discussion weekend a long while ago and was essentially added while we > were speccing the API and no-one had any problem with the commit > message bit.
Well, that none of the developers complained doesn't mean that users won't do - and from personal experience I know that developers are not always right ;-) > That's not to say it's wrong, but it's more just that > JOSM supported API 0.6 very early on and got the code to match the > spec exactly (if JOSM didn't follow the spec it could hardly be > expected anyone else would)... To be honest I'm not asking if it's in the spec (I don't think changing this part in the next days wouldn't be a big problem anyway). I ask if it's really a good or a bad move to have it that way. Regards, ULFL P.S: If the comment is mandatory in the spec and Potlatch doesn't follow the spec, are there any plans to ban potlatch? SCNR! ;-) _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev