[OSM-dev] Dev's purpose

[Shaun McDonald]

On 23 Jul 2007, at 14:48, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:

> Hi foundation folks and OSMers,
>
> I think we need to make a decision what "dev" is supposed to do.  
> Currently it does everything t at h related, it serves SOTM stuff, it  
> archives and serves all planet.osm files (12,000 times during the  
> last 8 days)  *and* it is development server.

Do we have any other boxes available that could be used as servers. I  
believe that it is time to move t at h to it's own server. Maybe even 2  
servers, one for the DB and the other for the files. That way dev can  
be freed up for other things like the serving of the planet.osm file  
and the postgres stuff.

That would also mean that the serving and updating of the tiles could  
be faster.

>
> People ask me e.g. to get them a postgres account so they can work  
> on their project of porting OSM to postgres. Others extract  
> planet.osm on it. On the other hand, the box is more than busy  
> waiting for it's hard disks already.

Way too busy. Maybe it's time to spread the load.

Shaun

>
> So I would like something which could help me justify on either  
> agreeing to or refusing those requests.  Do we want to continue  
> facilitatating postgres experimentantion on that box and other  
> development work? Should we steer it towards being optimized for  
> t at h requirements? Those are trade-offs, and making the call is  
> often difficult.
>
> I would appreciate if Steve, 80n, Nick and others gave their input  
> and opinions on this, giving me something to use as a rule-of-thumb  
> guideline. Ideally, the foundation's meeting minutes would include  
> a sentence on that, but...
>
> Thanks
> spaetz
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