> Like Frederik, I'm against voting for the same reasons. Okay, I'll drop that voting-idea (at lease for the moment ;)
> Revert should > be possible from the main site everywhere changesets are listed : from > the history tab on a bbox or the recent changes without bbox ([1]) or > from an individual contributor ([2]) edits. A new élink "revert" could > be added at the right side of every changeset line. One click might > report "succeed" or "conflict/failed, do it manually". Until this is possible I want to try to (or at least collect all necessary information to) write an external tool for this. > As a possible watchdog, the system could send automatically a message > to the author of the reverted changeset like "User:XXX reverted your > changeset 12345". In this way, you inform the person that his edit has > been reverted and this person may contact you back thus initiating the > discussion (if it is not pure vandalism). This should be very easy as talking about why the revert was done is one of the most basic things when it comes to conflict avoidance. > Edit war is still possible > but third parties should be involved only at this stage. Maybe such a tool could block such revert-reverts (A revert's Bs changeset, B reverts As revert) and only allow them to others, to avoid revert-wars. Maybe this should only happen after two rounds? Peter > [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse > [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RR8/edits _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
