[OSM-dev] 0.6 API hack-a-thon Date

Brett Henderson brett at bretth.com
Tue Oct 14 10:18:28 BST 2008


Shaun McDonald wrote:
> Hi Devs,
>
> With the rapid progress on the 0.6 API, I'd like to set the date of 
> the 0.6 API hack-a-thon in London to complete the transition to the 
> 0.6 API.
>
> I would like to propose the weekend of 9th November 2008, in the 
> CloudMade offices in London. Is this data suitable for the api and 
> application devs?
>
> Yesterday we got most of the changes to the API regarding the fact 
> that nodes, ways and relations now belong to a changeset instead of a 
> user complete, and all the tests working again, with more new tests 
> added.
>
> The bulk of the upcoming work includes
> * getting some useful information from the changesets, in both the API 
> and the data browser
> * expanding the test suite (which will inevitably find bugs in the code)
> * updating the documentation, checking that it is implemented 
> according the documentation, and vice versa
> * some code cleanup/checking
> * there also needs to be some performance and migration testing
> * (Of course there is anything else that comes up that we haven't 
> thought about)
Excellent work.
>
> Ideally we need to have all the main editors and osm tools ready for 
> the 0.6 API transition by the time the 0.6 API goes live in November. 
> As things currently stand, you can use JOSM, with a clean checkout of 
> the api06 branch.
Is there any test osm data in 0.6 format available?  Or do you have to 
migrate a 0.5 database to 0.6?  I should knock over the remaining 
osmosis changes to support 0.6.  Everything is done except for the the 
mysql tasks which are arguably the most important because they're used 
for changesets.

Brett





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