On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Henrik Niehaus wrote:
> I have a question concerning my openstreetbugs plugin. I have added new
> strings and want to translate them. What do I have to do? The gettext
> support for my plugin has been added by Dirk, I think, and I don't have
> a clue how this works.
This is d
> But honestly, what would you say from a user interface perspective;
> should we try and keep changesets open? What JOSM currently does is open
> changeset - upload - close, for each upoad action. Some people have a
> habit of uploading once every five minutes and they are perhaps annoyed
> to hav
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> But honestly, what would you say from a user interface perspective; should
> we try and keep changesets open? What JOSM currently does is open changeset
What I would like to see is that JOSM works like a wiki : when I click
on the upload but
Hi,
Lars Francke wrote:
> As the API allows to query for all open changesets by a given user
> what I would like to see is an option on upload to append to any of my
> open changesets
Sounds like somewhat of a "power user feature" to me. I'd say if you
want to work on different things at the sam
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> JOSM will not allow you to omit the comment, much as SVN doesn't allow
> you to commit without a message. Meaningful comments are vital to the
> usability of the whole changeset thing and while I can't (yet) force
> people to enter something
Dirk Stöcker schrieb:
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Henrik Niehaus wrote:
>
>> I have a question concerning my openstreetbugs plugin. I have added new
>> strings and want to translate them. What do I have to do? The gettext
>> support for my plugin has been added by Dirk, I think, and I don't have
>> a c
I can see why some people would find the comment requirement annoying,
but coming from using svn for source code it seems very natural to me.
I added a bunch of nodes for shops in my town last night and had no
trouble typing "add some stores in Lower Village, and move some" or
something like that.
Hi,
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> JOSM will not allow you to omit the comment, much as SVN doesn't allow
>> you to commit without a message. Meaningful comments are vital to the
>> usability of the whole changeset thing and while I can'
Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> Even if it's only "fuck you"? Because that's the sort of crap we'll
>> get in the database because JOSM is forcing commit messages on people.
>
> Yes, if the user so dislikes being communicative then let him put "fuck
> you" there
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Yes, if the user so dislikes being communicative then let him put "fuck
> you" there and be surprised why his edits get reverted more often than
> others.
>
> Honestly, the commit comment is important and if someone who has made an
> effort t
Hi,
Maarten Deen wrote:
> If a user gets his changes reverted more often because of the message he
> writes, than I think the system is wrong, not the message. Edits should be
> judged on the edit, not on the message that accompanies it.
I could very well imagine having edits which are questionab
Hi,
Pieren wrote:
> If I have to choose, I prefere contributors making good quality
> editions with no comments than contributors making bad quality stuff
> with nice comments.
Yes but why would you have to choose. Someone who values OSM high enough
to devote time and quality work to it can be e
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> I am surprised that it requires explanation. Can you imagine the
> usefulness of http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets without
> descriptions?
Nobody is arguing that detailed commit messages are a bad idea, but
that undescriptive br
On 22/04/2009 14:44, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> I am surprised that it requires explanation. Can you imagine the
>> usefulness of http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets without
>> descriptions?
>
> Nobody is arguing that detai
Pieren writes:
> like to describe my changes but not always. But when I see that "I
> have to" do it, it makes me so angry that I write anything excepted
> what I could kindly write otherwise.
Does it make you angry that you have to click in the Upload button to
commit your changes?
OSM has be
Frederik Ramm schrieb:
>
> Yes but why would you have to choose. Someone who values OSM high enough
> to devote time and quality work to it can be expected to describe in a
> few words what he is uploading. Why would he say no? The value of the
> contribution is so much higher if others can, in
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Ulf Lamping
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 *c
Martijn van Oosterhout schrieb:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Ulf Lamping
> 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
Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>> My fear is that especially newbies are prevented from uploading stuff:
>> "what do I have to add here?!?" - please remember: not everyone has
>> several years of subversion or wikipedia experience.
>
> We'll add a help button to explain.
M
Hi,
Ulf Lamping wrote:
>>> My fear is that especially newbies are prevented from uploading
>>> stuff: "what do I have to add here?!?" - please remember: not
>>> everyone has several years of subversion or wikipedia experience.
>>
>> We'll add a help button to explain.
>
> Making the GUI complic
Hi,
> Uncommented changes are worth less than those with comments. Let's combine
our efforts to make it as easy and comfortable for everyone to add
> meaningful comments, and we all gain from it.
Here's a possible patch: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/2442
It still enforces a commit commen
Frederik Ramm schrieb:
>> Making the GUI complicated and adding a Help button to explain the
>> complications is, well, not the best idea for improved user
>> friendliness IMHO.
>
> A text field where you have to enter text is not a complicated element.
I perfectly agree, that there's no need
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