On 15/07/09 13:13, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:49:11 +0100, Tom Hughes<t...@compton.nu> wrote: > >> Anyway, to draw on Frederik's workshop at SOTM the actual revert is in >> many ways the easy part - the hard thing is establishing the authority >> to do the revert. In other words the question of who gets to decide that >> an edit is "bad" and should be reverted. > > A revert is itself just a new changeset. > It is not a deletion of an existing changeset. > So any user has the rights to do a revert > if and only of that user has the right to > make an edit.
You are confusing what is technically possible with what is socially acceptable. Frederik's point was that when you are doing a revert you should consider whether (socially speaking) it is appropriate. So, to use his examples, if somebody mails him saying "I just made a mistake, can you revert my edit" then that is obviously fine; but if somebody on the other side of the world emails him saying "X keeps making bad edits, can you revert them" then he will decline as he has no way of knowing the background to the situation or who is right. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
