[OSM-talk] rails port live

[SteveC]

After a long day and much hacking here in sunny oxford the port is  
live (or will be after I send this). You really want to read through  
this as data may be lost if you don't:

Good things:

* its live
* josm shows you how much data is coming
* user display names show up in the osm xml data
* you can set all your stuff public
* variable size slippy map
* if you have an up to date JOSM, it should show intelligble error  
messages on download area too big etc
* 'map' call should give you all the segments referenced by ways  
returned by that call
* other stuff
* its live

Bad things:

* GPX files are currently reimporting and generating animations etc.  
this means gpx upload/download may be down for a while
* api 'map' call is slightly slower, some known optimisation is needed
* a bunch of hacking done by people here on things like 'show me  
mappers near me' has not been integrated and deployed yet, expect it  
tomorrow
* slippy map doesnt show in IE7. Sorry, none of us have windows or  
IE. If you do, please feel free to fix it.
* slippy map a bit broken in Safari. I think johnM has a fix for this  
in progress.
* potlatch / applet are broken, expect potlatch soon

Please treat the server gently, if tiles at home people could back off a  
bit that would be useful.

We've had a fun day. I'll let everyone else summarise what they got  
up to. I spent an hour or so taking everyone through ruby and rails  
and then spent the rest of the time getting rails live and fixing  
bugs found.

There is a current bug where downloading two overlapping areas in  
JOSM triggers a need for JOSM to upload  a lot of changes. We don't  
know why this is. Can JOSM hackers have a look and see what's going on?

As a result of this, and possible other bugs, we may need to revert  
the database to a snapshot of this morning in a day or two if serious  
data integrity bugs are found. Please do edit stuff and see how the  
new setup works but keep in mind there is a possibility you'll need  
to re-do your work if something really breaks.

===What to do if you find a bug===

Go to http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ and see if it's been reported  
already. If it has feel free to add comments, if not submit a new  
ticket. If it involves data integrity problems, please use 'BROKEN  
DATA' in the subject of the ticket somewhere.

Lastly thanks to all who have hacked on it, for richard/jamie for  
organising and everyone for coming.

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/