allow option for requiring description when editing page. This is so if a commit to an rcs is used, the commit message will not be blank. > Duplicate of [[todo/Allow_web_edit_form_comment_field_to_be_mandatory]] where > Joey indicated that he didn't want this in ikiwiki core, but would > accept a plugin that did it. > > Expanding on what Joey said there a little, the problem I have with > *requiring* a commit message is that solving a social problem > by technical means rarely works. If you can't persuade users > to obey a policy like "provide a nonempty commit message", then > you can't persuade them to obey a policy like "provide a *useful* > nonempty commit message" either. I used to work on a project > whose Bugzilla had been configured or patched to require a comment > whenever you changed a field (e.g. priority, cc, ...) and in > practice that just led to a lot of wasted time when people tried > to triage bugs quickly, and a lot of comments whose text was > ".", " ", or on at least one occasion, ☃ > (U+2603 SNOWMAN). > > If your chosen RCS has a technical constraint that the commit > message must be non-empty (and will just not work otherwise), > that's another matter; I'd say that in that situation > it's appropriate for its plugin to replace empty commit > messages with "." or gettext("update") or something. --smcv