[Tilesathome] Contacting T at H User

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Heiko Jacobs wrote:
> Some times ago, as I asked someone why styles were not updated more quicker,
> I heard that svn from all clients to central svn would be a bottle neck...

> I had the idea, that not every client should make svn for styles,
> but the t at h-server should do it regulary (cron every 6 hours ... 2 days ...)
> and if a diff from old to new says, that there are some changes, the
> t at h-server may inform his clients, that there are new styles...

This is what is already done. There is a "latest client version" tag on
the server that is checked by the client. Whenever the server announces
a new version than clients will autoupdate their svn code, including the
style sheets. So there is no bottleneck. Problems occur when people
explicitely and on purpose disable the autoupdating of SVN code (or
someone forgot to update the server version).
In this case downloading the styles from the t at h server wouldn't help as
those people that disable svn updating would also disable the download
of a data dump from the t at h server.

spaetz