[Tilesathome] Clients not behaving

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

Am 16.06.2010 12:08, schrieb Sebastian Spaeth:
> On 2010-06-15, James A. T. Rice wrote:
>> Perhaps if the user stats page is causing people to reduce the quality of 
>> the Tiles at home effort because they're more interested in their own stats 
>> than they are in Tiles at home quality, then one solution is to remove the 
>> user stats page entirely? It looks like from the amount of time my clients 
>> have spent in 'waiting 30s server load too high', that there's no shortage 
>> of clients who would do the work anyway.
> 
> Currently clients upload .zip files of individuals pngs which the server
> puts together to .tileset files. This used to not be a bottleneck at all
> when the amount of changes was lower, but it proves to be a bottleneck
> now. The server has support for uploading .tileset files directly doing
> away with the bottleneck. And the clients have experimental support for
> creating those .tileset files. All we need to do is to test the .tileset
> file upload and switch clients to produce them directly. This would do
> away with the waiting queue completly as the upload would not require
> anything but a few basic sanity checks. The changes needed are entirely on the
> client side, and I would welcome any effort to start uploading .tileset
> files directly.

The user PA94 is already testing tilesets, and apparently successfully so.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0901°N 8.7868°E

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