<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lars Aronsson</b> <<a href="mailto:lars@aronsson.se">lars@aronsson.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
J.D. Schmidt wrote:<br><br>> The items Chris wants are on the way in the Rails port,<br><br>Leaving all else aside, this "Rails port" is a huge cathedral of<br>hopes and expectations. In any volunteer-based project (and also
<br>many commercial software projects), that is already a sign of<br>failure. You should never build expectations. Develop in small<br>steps and report achievements, but never announce grand plans for<br>the future. Such plans tend to attract more and more
<br>expectations. Wouldn't this and that be nice? Surely it must be<br>part of the Rails port. When will the Rails port be ready? It<br>would have been ready by now if it was kept small, but the plan<br>was allowed to grow, and there was no hard deadline, so it was
<br>easy to expand the plan, and expand, and expand. And in the end,<br>what people need is the map here and now, and nobody really died<br>because the Rails port was delayed and delayed and delayed.<br><br>So: ditch the Rails port. It doesn't exist. Forget about it.
<br><br>If suddenly one day, Steve turns up with a working Rails port,<br>then let's celebrate and be happy. But I don't keep any<br>expectations for this, so I'll be happy either way.</blockquote><div><br>An alternative approach would be:
<br><br>cd /usr/src/openstreetmap/sites/rails_port<br><br>ruby script/server<br><br>less db/README<br><br>ruby script/server<br><br>Wow, its openstreetmap, on my machine. But we could also pretend that it doesnt exist and wait for someone else to do it.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br> Lars Aronsson (<a href="mailto:lars@aronsson.se">lars@aronsson.se</a>
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