Good luck to the guys that are doing the license upgrade work, see you all on the other side in new license land
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Good luck to the guys that are doing the license upgrade work, see you all on the other side in new license land
Discussion
Beachd le b166er 31 Am Màrt 2012 aig 13:24
:) thumbsup
Beachd le compdude 31 Am Màrt 2012 aig 21:27
I hope that at least there won’t be glaring issues with the map after all the stuff that’s incompatible with the new license gets deleted. I really hope someone at the OSMF will review our progress. Speaking of the OSMF, they really should have been on the frontlines helping us with this transition.
Beachd le compdude 31 Am Màrt 2012 aig 21:28
Dang, only 2 1/2 hours left to do rempapping. Better get working!
Beachd le compdude 31 Am Màrt 2012 aig 21:29
Dang only 2 1/2 hours left before they servers go into read-only mode. Better get working!!
Beachd le chriscf 1 An Giblean 2012 aig 00:55
FWIW, this isn’t licence-changeover downtime, this is install-a-new-server downtime. The licence-changeover work will start after that (though not necessarily immediately).
Beachd le compdude 4 An Giblean 2012 aig 17:07
@chriscf, is that really so? If it is why didn’t the OSMF tell us that?!
Beachd le chriscf 5 An Giblean 2012 aig 01:16
Er, it was in the announcement of the downtime.
Beachd le compdude 5 An Giblean 2012 aig 03:03
It’s not enough for them to just post on a mailing list. Most users including me do not subscribe to those; in fact some people might not even know about them. The post they had on their blog was not as clear as what you quoted here. It is about time OSMF realize that they need to make these important things crystal clear to reduce confusion.
Beachd le compdude 5 An Giblean 2012 aig 03:08
FYI they actually said the opposite on this post on their blog. It said this:
“The long awaited and eagerly anticipated license upgrade is coming soon, the conclusion of a multi-year process. To minimise disruption to OpenStreetMap mappers and users, we’re taking the opportunity to install our new database server (funded by your generous contributions) at the same time – reducing the total amount of downtime needed.”
Anyway, whatever. At least we had the pleasant surprise of having additional time to complete the whole remapping process.
Beachd le chriscf 5 An Giblean 2012 aig 06:51
What nonsense. Keep reading. Scroll down a bit. Oh, look, there’s the proposed timetable.
(With apologies to marscot for clogging up the diary entry further.)