Re: [talk-au] What makes a good change set comment?

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
 What goes in to a good change set comment?  Should it include the
 nature of your edits, the sources used, edit theme, and location?
 What else?

You might want to back up a bit and ask what purpose do changesets serve?

For me, they don't really serve any purpose, so I don't really spend
much time on comments. At best I might mention the suburb I think I'm
mapping in.

Steve

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Re: [talk-au] What makes a good change set comment?

[Liz]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Richard Weait wrote:
 What goes in to a good change set comment?  Should it include the
 nature of your edits, the sources used, edit theme, and location?
 What else?
 

The question is good, but from a mapper point of view I don't want to put in 
masses of information. I want it to upload, and be saved before a crisis 
occurs. 
But when I'm trying to sort out what someone was doing, and why I disagree 
with their actions, no changeset comment is ever going to give the information

here is an example correct errors from tagwatch update to nearmap (I know 
whose this is, and I'm not picking on you.
I've been putting town names eg murrumburrah. Of course when you see where 
the edit was, that information isn't really helpful either.

I find changeset comments like the secret police, very invasive, and will be 
unlikely to write anything effusive in the space.

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