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.
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).
Between Sunday 1st of April 2012 (no joke) 8:00am (GMT / UTC) and the morning of the 4th of April 2012 the primary database server will be switched to read-only mode so that we can bring the new server (ramoth) onstream, bought thanks to your donations. […] When service is resumed, we will begin the license change as a background process, redacting any data whose authors have not consented to the new terms.
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.
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.
Discussion
Ulasan b166er terhadap 31 Mac 2012 pada 13:24
:) thumbsup
Ulasan compdude terhadap 31 Mac 2012 pada 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.
Ulasan compdude terhadap 31 Mac 2012 pada 21:28
Dang, only 2 1/2 hours left to do rempapping. Better get working!
Ulasan compdude terhadap 31 Mac 2012 pada 21:29
Dang only 2 1/2 hours left before they servers go into read-only mode. Better get working!!
Ulasan chriscf terhadap 1 April 2012 pada 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).
Ulasan compdude terhadap 4 April 2012 pada 17:07
@chriscf, is that really so? If it is why didn’t the OSMF tell us that?!
Ulasan chriscf terhadap 5 April 2012 pada 01:16
Er, it was in the announcement of the downtime.
Ulasan compdude terhadap 5 April 2012 pada 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.
Ulasan compdude terhadap 5 April 2012 pada 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.
Ulasan chriscf terhadap 5 April 2012 pada 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.)