[josm-dev] New Tested

Dirk Stöcker openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Sat Feb 26 08:17:29 GMT 2011


On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>>  Please note also, that this week a new server infrastructure has been
>>  established. JOSM mappaint styles, mapcss styles and JOSM presets can now
>>  be made in the JOSM Trac wiki pages.
>
> Assuming there was some catastrophic server failure, and further assuming 
> that you are not personally available to fix things -
>
> 1. will anyone else in the world be able to re-create the trac setup that you 
> have created? Are any of the core JOSM developers involved? I know that I'm 
> not and to me it looks like quite a maze! How long would it take someone to

Well no. There are only 2 places - A Cron job doing these regular checks 
of external stuff and one JOSM-plugin for Trac. Trac is really a powerful 
software which allows such expansions in a nice way. The only problem is, 
that we can't move away from trac without loosing all these features.

> create the required infrastructure? Is there documentation? (Don't say "yes, 
> in trac" ;) Are there backups that include all the config files etc.?

/home/josm/backup contains a daily backup with everything included. 
Currently I'm probably the only one doing a daily copy of this file. I 
would appreciate if you (and/or Sebastian) do as well. /home/josm/README 
contains notes what needs to be done to resetup all (actually only 
apache+cron config and installing of relevant software).

> 2. what parts of JOSM will not work as long as the server is down?

Every automatism (update-list, plugins-list, style-list, help and start 
page), and Yahoo download. For all of these users would need to do the 
manual way - download and install :-) The same as when using JOSM offline.

Ciao
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