Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > I know it has been discussed before but found a lot of broken data > created by bot bugbuster and this is important enough to bring it up again. > There was some lame response but never really an explanation what this > bot is doing. Some edits are correct others are not.
Always include examples that are bad (changeset + relation/way/node ). > There is little information in the wiki that there has been some bug > fixes. But how can I know if the bot doesn't break my fixed data again. What did the owner of the but answered ? > Should we allow bots at all? Sure if they are useful and documented. But > there should be a need to do a quality check and review first before > someone is allowed to run a bot against the whole planet. Should we allow to register everyone only with a valid email address and let him edit the whole planet with JOSM/potlatch/script without quality check ? This new users are doing the same mistakes I did at the beginning and they often break valid data and they sometimes don't respond to emails if you have questions unlike the bot owner of that bot. > this bot does so many edits and it's very difficult to even find all the > bad edits in a flood of edits. I have a flood of edits as well : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nightdive/edits > Is this a candidate for the new block feature to stop the bot until it's > clearly documented and approved by voting or an other form of agreement? Provide examples, try to communicate with the owner of the bot and if you fail to find a solution with him and the other people agreeing he will be a candidate for a block. Matthias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
