[OSM-dev] Data corruption :) II

[Stefan de Konink]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Tom Hughes wrote:

> > Then let me even get a better proposal; A second machines will be
> > installed that has enforced foreign keys. This second machine will produce
> > the planet. And will directly trigger events upon corruption so the main
> > API doesn't need to cope with them until 0.6.
>
> So you want us to do a huge amount of engineering work, including
> sourcing new hardware, just to make things easier for you. Bearing in
> mind that this will itself delay 0.6 because it will divert effort, and
> that it will also be hugely duplicative of the 0.6 work.

Yup :) And for all other users of your core business. Delivering
consistent Geo data.

> Are you completely mad?

No, technically I am King because I am a customer of your data, that is
broken. Any proposal to fix it in a reasonable time, hence less than 1
month is accepted.


Stefan