Matt Amos wrote: > the provisional deadline discussed at the hack weekend was xmas, > although this has probably slipped by now. the server-side code is > almost complete, but needs testing. most of the editors are working, > but need testing. do you think it would be motivating for all the > volunteers working on the editor and server code if we set a deadline?
I think so; it would make people live to a date, and see something big happening. Would not only be good for the community not only for developers. >> Is this problem at all addressed in 0.6? I'm quite surprised by this >> thread because I always was under the impression k and v sizes were >> unbounded. The choice for 256 is also very strange, 255 would have made >> much more sense. > > it is varchar(255). i see no reason why it couldn't be longer, but > making it unbounded would mean that potentially megabytes of > information could be stored in the values. the limit encourages terse > tagging, which is good for everyone. The point was that I had limited it to 255 too, until I saw my inserts failing. So that could be two things, XML encoding problems, or something else. Never the less 255 seems enough to me too. > the exception is the note: key, which i've quite often wished were > longer. we now have things like openstreetbugs for some of these, > though. Just introduce an extra table; that stores the <note></note> field? Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
