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Designed and built for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team collaborative emergency/disaster mapping, the OSM Tasking Manager 2.0 divides an area into individual squares that can be rapidly mapped by thousands of volunteers.
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Comments not shown in project activity feed #828

Open ethan-nelson opened 8 years ago

ethan-nelson commented 8 years ago

In the project activity feed, only events such as (in-)validations, done marks are recorded. Should we also include comments? That would 1) provide context for the invalidations and 2) also give a sense of feedback going on project-wide.

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bgirardot commented 7 years ago

We need to really look at the data coming out of the TM over all and provide more easy to consume feeds, like all the comments on a group of projects or individual project rss/slack/irc feeds

logrady commented 7 years ago

This is an issue for me as well. I was surprised how few people comment. I use it almost always, have asked questions that have gone unanswered and wondered if it has just become somehow more acceptable to not comment/respond. If anyone has ever written code commenting is a must. It's also expected when contributing edits to OSM so I'm not sure what's happening here.

bgirardot commented 7 years ago

Comments are really lost to anyone besides who got @name mentioned,there is no good way for anyone else to access comments except by sheer luck they open the task in question and see the comments.

I am thinking a "feed" of all the comments coming out of a project so we could see the comments being made across the whole project in real time. Project Managers could use that stream, validators could use that stream.

RAytoun commented 7 years ago

That sound very useful. I have once found a newbie invalidating tiles with bad comments and have had to send messages to those mappers apologising and give a better and more positive assessment of their work. I also sent a message to that validator explaining the effects of the comments and asked him to please stop validating until he had more experience. That was just by chance as I checked some of the validations on that project.

logrady commented 7 years ago

What was the original intended use of the comment section in the TM and has anyone formally inquired (e.g., via survey) as to why it is not really in use?

I use RSS feeds a lot. I'm not sure others still do though. I've heard some say they stopped as the same information could be found on Twitter. I didn't find this to be the case for some of my feeds and in if the information was tweeted it tends to get lost in my feed. I find my RSS reader a much better way of managing this type of information.

RAytoun commented 7 years ago

The TM comments are meant to be specific to a single tile and directed at specific mappers with @name. When correcting a mappers work we do not want it made public but, at the same time it needs to be seen by someone else who may pick up the work on that tile. So @logrady would not get a response to a question in the comments because no one else would be aware that it is there unless they started to work on that tile. While it may be beneficial to newbies to be notified that their work has been validated/invalidated I certainly would not want an automatic notice sent out each time my tile is validated as it would flood my messages box and I am sure plenty others would find it an annoyance as well. Added to that as I mentioned before it was by chance that I picked up on one person making nasty comments about "crap mapping" and had to send out apologies on HOT's behalf. So if there is some way for a Project Manager or Lead Validator (if we have one) to 'see' all the comments then that would be beneficial. What about an automatic inclusion of the project manager's @name in each comment box until there is a way to call up a list of the comments? That way the Project Manager will be kept in touch with what is happening with his/her project.