How whow what a great post. Thank you for that! I was nodding most of the time while reading :)
> Yes, I would like to see a revert function available to which I could > give a changeset to and it would revert all the changes made to the > database within that changeset. It must flag the changes as being made > by me and being made using that tool (I must take responsibility for the > decision to revert and the tool must also be identified as it has some > responsibility for the quality of the revert). Would the tool be > something that ran on my computer? Possibly. I'd like to have a web-interface as this would make interaction with others much more easy. Also the example [2] shows the great power of the crowd and I'd like to make as much use of this as possible. And finally I'm a Web-Developer :) > A good tool will need to be able to do this even when some changes have > been made on top of the changeset and possibly highlight a few issues > that cannot be reverted because of conflicts. In cases where it's unable to solve a conflict automatically it should give logical proposals but also allow completely free edits on all nodes (including none-conflicting) > A good might be able to review all the changes made by a particular user > over a period of time and list the status of the features before and > after to assess what the user is doing and if there is any sense to it > or what. It should be possible to revert multiple changesets by one user > in this way. It should also show which changes already have been reverted to show how others think about them. I think I might be able to build such a tool around the mid of September, maybe even a little later. If s/o else wants to, feel free. I put [.. very good ideas about a monitoring-tool, which is out of my current scope] > A good set of tools will allow us to revert vandalism within minutes. And should not make intentional vandalism more easy than it is to day. > Please can a bunch of coders get on with producing support for this > important work. The biggest issue in writing those tools is planning them. When a tool is planned from A-Z, it's coded within days. So come on and discuss further how you'd like to work with this tool, so that we're able to build it. > You could check the tool on the edits made over the previous two months > by Liam123, some of which have still not been reverted for lack of a > suitable tool to achieve it. Thank you for that hint, i'll do this. I pushed all collected ideas to [3]. I signed your input with a link to your mail in the archives, hope this is ok. While discussion goes on here I'll try to copy the good points to that page. Peter [2] cassini.toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/ [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Change_rollback _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
