Hi! I should probably jump in here and point something out: Tirex is basically unmaintained code. Frederik Ramm and I developed Tirex originally. I wrote most of the code, I wrote man pages and wiki documentation. There is a setup for creating Debian/Ubuntu packages. As Open Source projects go, and for a task this complex, Tirex is actually quite well documented and easy to install and run. But this was three years ago! Since then nobody really feels responsible for keeping it going. Frederik uses Tirex and it works reliable for him, but he is probably too busy to work on Tirex beyond what he immediately needs. I don't run any tile servers any more and have moved to other projects for which I do feel responsible.
So the root of any problem with Tirex simply is: nobody feels responsible for it. If there is a bug, maybe somebody will fix it, maybe not. But Open Source software doesn't stand on its own. It needs some love, too. It needs people who are deeply involved with the software who keep documentation up to date, who integrate other peoples efforts into the project and who coordinate with neighboring project maintainers. Tirex doesn't have that. And many other software around OSM doesn't have that either. In fact a lot of software is like that. This isn't solved by more mailing lists or better trouble ticket systems. This is only solved by somebody taking up the torch and running with it. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
