[OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org

[Tom Hughes]

On 06/05/11 21:47, Nic Roets wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Tom Hughes<tom at compton.nu>  wrote:
>> On 06/05/11 19:31, Nic Roets wrote:
>>
>>> I really want to avoid the delays that another round of discussion and
>>> eventual hardware purchases will bring. So I'm willing to pay for
>>> hosting on Amazon during a trial period. That will give us the ability
>>> to scale infinitely. It will also give us time to find the most
>>> appropriate hardware and raise the necessary donations.
>>
>> Have you asked the sysadmins if they would consider such a solution
>> acceptable? I would certainly be against it.
>
> Actually I did ask Grant. He indicated that he had no problem with
> other than it being expensive. But I still want to know the answer to
> Lambertus' question.

My concerns would be about making ourselves reliant on something that we 
don't control.

>>> So the only remaining issue is for the sysadmins to apply, test and
>>> deploy the patch they received.
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge the sysadmins have never received any such
>> patch. Indeed as far as I know it doesn't exist.
>
> I was referring to the patch that Frederik sent you on 7 March 2011.

Ah right, I misunderstood what you were referring to.

Yes, I have that patch and I started work on reviewing it at the last 
hack day. The current state of can be seen in my github repo:

https://github.com/tomhughes/openstreetmap-website/tree/routing

I'll probably continue looking at it at the next hack day, if not before 
- there is one other patch set that I also need to look at.

Tom

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