At 2012-04-25 13:20, Richard Weait wrote:
Hello,

Rebuilding continues.  Redaction tests are still being refined.
According to best estimates we are close to cracking this, but it's a
complex area - passing tests will be the benchmark here.  Of the
remaining tests,  five concern nodes, seven concern ways, five concern
relations and 1 relates to significant tag changes.  There were more
than 20 commits[1] to the license change branch of the code this week,
from four authors. Your contributions are welcome.

Once the tests are passing, live data testing will be conducted
against a test server that is already configured and waiting. Subject
to a successful test, a bounding-box test of the live database will be
processed, most likely for the island of Ireland. After this
successfully processes, the rest of the data set can be processed to
completion.

I'm sorry to be dramatic, but this is scarily imprecise!

What happened to the idea of giving notice before working on the live database? What about the areas of the world previously identified where there is a large percentage of data that would be redacted? This is UNACCEPTABLE to mappers in those areas, as it should be to the rest of the project.

Also, while some originally objected to the huge amount of license-related discussion going on on the talk list, it seems like important things like progress updates need a wider audience than just the rebuild list.

--
Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>


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