[Tilesathome] Towards a more efficient lowzoom

[Frederik Ramm]

Lars,

    I'm sure that the lack of momentum in the "new admins" process is 
not due to any unwillingness on either Oliver's or Nick's part. Both of 
them, like the dev server, operate on limited resources.

For my part, I have asked Nick for a dev account a week ago and haven't 
heard back yet, and even after all nominated admins have dev accounts, 
we will still need a Unix group to be set up and so on. This will take 
time, and it is easy to lose patience with people who occupy the 
"bottleneck positions" but we should really try not to.

(And even when all this is set up, none of us, not even Oliver, will 
have root on the dev machine or MySQL database admin privileges, so I 
believe there will always be things where we cannot handle something on 
our own. But in a parallel process to what we see with tiles at home, Steve 
has said he'd like to set up a few more people with server admin 
privileges on all servers, and there are many people willing to do that, 
so we'll hopefully see NickH's bottleneck status relieved soon as well.)

> This was the case three weeks ago, and still is today.  No change. 
> Many people could implement the improvements, but aren't allowed 
> to.

They will be.

Considering the hardware, I still believe that t at h needs its own server 
but offers haven't been forthcoming and we're not millionaires so we 
have to make do. (I hope that dev will at least get more memory some 
day. I have already given some money to OSM for that but in the end it 
went towards a better database server which is ok as well - I'll send 
some more and hope it gets used for memory this time.)

> It's not me.  I'm out of here.

Come on, we both know you cannot live without something to complain 
about, and what's better suited for complaints than t at h? See?

Bye
Frederik

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