[OSM-talk] xapi downage

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Grant Slater
<openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
> On 9 January 2011 16:19, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know when the xapi will be back online? It's been down for
>> several days at least.
>>
>
> 80n is the only person who coded / runs the current implemention of
> XAPI which is written in GT.M / MUMPS.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
> Others have attempting at getting it running but failed.
>
> XAPI currently uses 2 servers:
>  * xapi.org.org: Hardware provided and hosted by OSM sysadmin team.
> Sysadmin policy that the code needs to be open source. 80n remove the
> source code dump in December.

So you're saying that the recent problems have been caused by
political grandstanding? Bloody hell.