[Tilesathome] Overall Status

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 6/18/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     my personal view of the "state of tiles at home":
>
> * We're still in "limp mode" and more or less have been ever since
> around May this year.

I agree. And in fact, it seems that's as time goes along more and more
stuff breaks that isn't getting fixed. The apache server crashes
regularly, nobody seems to know why. The database dumps are not
working.

> * OJW still the only one doing t at h administration, and NickH (obviously)
> still the only one doing dev administration, both well-meaning but still
> in bottleneck positions. (I haven't even managed to get a dev account
> during the last 3 weeks... will send another mail to NickH.)

I would like to thank everyone for the work they're doing, but I
honestly beleive most of the problems could be solved if we got some
more admins. It's a known problem, volunteers were called for weeks
ago, people responded yet nothing has happened.

> Sadly, with the sorry state the server's in at the moment, I doubt many
> people will have the motivation to fix coastlines or indeed think about
> anything interesting to do with tiles at home. If tiles at home had been in
> this state when I begun working on it a few months ago, I would probably
> have found myself something else to play with.

Well, you just get very very patient. I've got a list of 6million+
blank tiles to upload, but it's going to take time so I've not
bothered yet... Then again, waiting isn't going to make it finish any
sooner...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/