On 5/5/05, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, I agree that there's no need to make the poor editor's life harder.
The latest proposal on the VP was to auto-fill the summary box with some of the text of the edit... perhaps prefaced by a string that makes it clear that it is an auto-summary (so you can still tell it is a 'newbie', if that's what no summary told you before). This simply lets more information about the edit drift up to the RC and history views. This conceptual change is about improving the density of information provided by those views, not about forcing people to do anything.
Or rather than changing summaries, which might actually be metadata useful for something in the future, we should make the places where we see lists of changes (history, RC, etc) show some of the change text itself.