[dokuwiki] Re: Minor edits question

  • From: "Joe Lapp" <joe.lapp@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:55:35 -0500 (CDT)

I like your ease-of-use argument.  A minor edit should possibly be easier than 
a major one.  It suggests to me that maybe we ought to interpret an empty 
summary as a minor edit.  On the other hand, an empty summary could mean, "I 
forgot."

POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE: Maybe empty summaries are considered minor edits, but if 
you ever go to save with no summary, you first get a popup asking you if you 
meant for this to be recorded as a minor edit.  Hmmm?  An extra step, yes, but 
less advance thinking is required, and one fewer click to remedy forgetting to 
check the minor edit box.  (And in this case we dump the $conf['requiresums'].)

~joe

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From: "Daniel Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [dokuwiki] Re: Minor edits question

> > Or perhaps we dump $conf['requiresums'] and make it always 
> > mandatory to either provide a summary or click the checkbox.
> 
>  I definitely think it should be optional -- we're using dokuwiki here
> as an easy way for people to put documentation together. Any extra steps
> that make it more complicated will make it more likely they won't bother
> documenting stuff becuse it's too much hassle, which is exactly what we
> want to avoid. 
> 
>  Sure, it's just a checkbox, but if it's a checkbox that you have to do
> every time, then every time you have to think "well, is this really a
> minor edit? Maybe I should describe it", and then it's more work. It
> seems like the whole sense of it should be flipped -- the checkbox
> should be "add description", default to being unchecked, and we should
> ask our users politely to consider adding descriptions of their changes
> if they want to, but not force it. 
> 
>  That's how most other things like this work -- when you're committing
> changes to CVS/SourceSafe, the "description" edit box is there and can
> be used, but you can cheerfully just ignore it too. 
> 
>  -- dan
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