[Tilesathome] 'stable' t at h version

[Carsten Möller]

Florian Lohoff schrieb:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:56:19AM +0200, Michael Bergbauer wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> as there are lots of changes to the t at h clients recently and also some
>> changes that don't work quite well in the first place, would it probably
>> be possible/useful, to have the autoupdate feature of t at h checking out a
>> designed 'stable' version from SVN insteast of the latest, with
>> potentially lots of bugs in it?
>>
>> And in order to avoid not testing new code, perhaps have it a
>> configuration option to check out stable or latest.
> 
> I second that - I'd like to see a "stable" or "production" branch on
> svn which is automatically followed by clients in default - Why not have
> the branch to follow in the config. People can try and break things on
> HEAD and once the dust has settled merge the changed to production for
> clients to check.
> 
> I am running 12 CPUs in 3 machines - All of them multicore so the
> breakage yesterday basically brought down all of my instances. While i
> like to help fix bugs the main goal must be to keep the map up to date.
> 
> And to be honest - Its a shame to see a 8 CPU machine idle with a load
> of 0.2 because the client fails on every tile request.
> 
> Flo
> 

Even for us "small" users this is very frustating. So the newly 
discussion about setting up a maintenance(release)/branch is necessary.
A few days ago I suggested exactly the same, but got only negative response.

Regards

Carsten