[Tilesathome] Tiles at home unavailable all Monday

[J.D. Schmidt]

Lars Aronsson skrev:
> Today I worked with OJW to implement "single tileset" uploads in 
> Tiles at home.  Towards the end of today's experimentation, he 
> started a MySQL operation that unfortunately is still running and 
> sucking all the juice out of the "dev" server.  All uploads are 
> blocked, and tile viewing is probably too slow to be useful. Even 
> more unfortunate, OJW can only return to this on Monday evening 
> and he's the only one who can do this.
> 
> My personal reflection is that OJW should have declared earlier 
> how much time he had available and planned so that he could leave 
> the system in a somewhat operational state *and* send this update 
> to the list.  But he preferred to just log off and leave it as it 
> was.  This is very much like all these "404" tiles of varying 
> color that we see, instead of the oceantiles we were having only a 
> week ago.  Well, that's the end of my patience with OJW.  I 
> started to use t at h because Mapnik tiles were updating too slowly, 
> I came to depend on t at h, and that turned out to be a big mistake.  
> I know a dead-end street when I see one.  I shall have to find 
> other ways that take me forward.
> 
> 
You seem to forget that this is a hobby. OJW has a life outside of OSM, 
despite being inflicted with OCOSMD. He has a right to that life, and it 
would be a sad state of things, if he put a hobby before any other 
commitments such as family time, work, and relaxation.

Neither OSM nor its subprojects such as Tiles at Home are to my knowledge 
lifecritical systems that must be accessible 24/7/365, or the world as 
we know will end...

As long as OJW has the inclination of donating his ressources, from what 
probably already is a limited pool of spare time, I for one, am 
gratefull for his dedication to the project. That goes for anyone who 
uses brainpower, creativity, and last but not least, time in the OSM 
project.

Yes I bitch too, when something goes wrong or is down. But after 
informing the people who might be able to fix it, I go and do something 
else untill the system is up again, if I am not able in helping to fix it.
Because I realize this is a hobby for all involved at the moment. Not 
one person involved in the project are getting payed to do things 
related to OSM.

If you are so unsatisfied with the state of OSM and/or T at H, there really 
are only two options left for you :
A) Find a better solution, and use it instead.
B) Develop a better solution and present it. If it is better, people 
will automatically transgress over to that.

But going to personal attack mode, and stating that your patience with 
Oliver has ended, and that you find that the manner he has used his 
sparetime is under all critique, is just plain low IMSHO.

'nuff said.

Dutch