<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 16:25, Ian Dees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Torsten Rahn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tackat@t-online.de" target="_blank">tackat@t-online.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
But I think there should be an aim to introduce some place where I can look up<br>
which services/Urls etc. are considered stable and supported and which are<br>
considered experimental or deprecated. And I think that it should be the aim<br>
of OSM to have a proper deprecation process. :-)</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I don't think OSM provides any services that the public should consider "stable" in the sense of "99.999% uptime, transaction guaranteed or your money back". The closest might be the API server, but even that could possibly go down as has been described before.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In our "free and open" world, I think stable is not about uptime but about perennity, i.e., even if the server crashes, it will be there again, be it in 1 day, 1 week or 1 month. </div>
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<div><br></div><div>OSM is about the data itself, not the services around it. The services available on the website and wiki are there because someone thought it would be a nice way to help debug or otherwise improve mapping and map data quality, not to provide a service to external users like KDE, Microsoft, Google or anyone for that matter.</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Not even to OSM data editors? For whom, then? Why even announce that gazetteer was going down...</div><div>Remember the thread is not about the quality of the services provided by OSMF, just that the notice was too short... </div>
<div><br></div><div>If some services are just sandboxes and not meant to be used, please make it clear, and this is what Torsten means by "[a place to] look up which services/Urls etc. are considered stable and supported and which are considered experimental or deprecated", I think.</div>
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