Opened 17 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#1047 closed enhancement (wontfix)
created_by should be updated on every change
| Reported by: | Richard Fairhurst | Owned by: | framm |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Core | Version: | |
| Keywords: | created_by | Cc: |
Description
JOSM only sets created_by tags when an object is created. Potlatch sets it when created and modified.
I think (well, I would, wouldn't I ;) ) that Potlatch's behaviour is better and would like to see JOSM do the same. The initial "creator" of an object is always listed in the history, of course. Updating it for each revision helps to narrow down mistakes to specific editors: currently JOSM is saving objects with (say) "created_by=Potlatch 0.5" untouched, which is a little misleading. Even though JOSM is of course flawless, having JOSM-saved edits attributed to Potlatch doesn't help me in debugging Potlatch!
This will of course not be needed for 0.6 when transactions are introduced, but in the absence of that happening any time soon, it would be smashing if JOSM could switch to Potlatch-like behaviour.
WONTFIX until we drop created_by in 0.6 altogether.