Yes, bring it on for those already wanting 850. Hence I could already work on swiss 850 airports, to have it ready without any hassle for 2.9 Terrasync integration. Could you let me know as soon as Europe/Switzerland could be used? Maybe as early/parallel 2.9 git, download or whatever. Thanks Michael
--- On Thu, 6/7/12, ys <flightg...@sablonier.ch> wrote: > From: ys <flightg...@sablonier.ch> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] The next FlightGear release (summer 2012) > To: "FlightGear developers discussions" > <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 7:36 PM > Just to add a note what is already > running on this jenkins right now, on different slaves: > - hgtchop available SRTM-3 data (I make use of the no data > filled files I provide), this a one day job on very old > machine > - terrafitting the data (another one day job on the same old > machine) > - taking recent xplane apt.dat and splitting into single > airport files (one hour job) > - creating xml files like showed at scenery list, per > airport, still experimental > - running genapts850 on every single airport file, creating > airport and airport area folders for further scenery > creation, still experimental > - pushing this data to a public server (not realised yet, > waiting for proposals where this should be) > > This is all created in a jenkins workspace which can be > shared then by fgfs-construct slaves. What regions or how > many tiles this slaves could/should create depends on a new > "regional" grid that has to be defined. One benefit of this > workflow could be: Everyone use the same elevation data for > scenery creation, everyone use the same apt.dat data etc. > The fgfs-construct job definitions may vary from region to > region. People can concentrate on updating resources and > jenkins scenery slaves are eating this automatically. > > Theoretically every machine around the globe can act as a > jenkins slave when the recent terragear toolchain is > installed and distinct ports are open in network. The > fgfs-construct jobs are heavy and may run some days. Having > some powerful servers as "main" slaves would be nice. Role > for main slaves could also be taking over the jobs when some > smaller nodes are off for any reason. > > Yes, just promoting this jenkins world scenery workload idea > again, comments still welcome anytime. In case there is a > machine/server which can act as a slave please just send me > a note. You can get access to this jenkins immediately, I > would also help to install all tools and setup the jobs to > be done ;-) > > Cheers, Yves > > > > > Am 07.06.2012 um 17:35 schrieb ys <flightg...@sablonier.ch>: > > > As I mentioned some weeks ago I think we should leave > path of creating world scenery in one task. I made a > proposal how to create world scenery in chunks all day and > nights with jenkins on different machines for different > regions. The sources for this creation process can remain on > one "master", the many fgfs-construct slaves will need a bit > of cpu power (more slaves welcome here anytime for testing). > What I miss at the moment is a tool like terramaster for > this process, where one can follow recent scenery creation > process by created tiles i.e. The jenkins artifacts can be > pushed to a terrasync server, daily, weekly, monthly or in > whatever cycle. A tool like terramaster should reflect the > versioning of the region/tiles visually somehow, but this is > not the most important part of course. > > > > For me the scenery release should not follow the core > release plan. A need for the next release cycle might be > moving the outdated static apt.dat from the base package to > a new place, but of course only in case someone really > follows the plan to get a dynamical apt data solution > for next flightgear. I know the plan with jenkins scenery > creation might cause some inconsistency the first weeks and > months, but once the creation process is in sync with data > there remain only small areas to update and we can follow > regular and great apt.dat updates coming in every months by > a huge group of contributors chez xplane. > > > > There is probably no other way (or I didnt here > anything different here): apt.dat in 810 format is a scenery > development blocker, independent of release numbers. > > > > Cheers, Yves > > > > > > > > > > Am 07.06.2012 um 15:55 schrieb Björn Kesten > > <amusing.random.al...@googlemail.com>: > > > >> Good to know. > >> > >> I'd dedicate some CPU time to world scenery > generation, but I'm not > >> sure how many months that would take... :S > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Live Security Virtual Conference > >> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways > today's security and > >> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers > can respond. 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