BecOzIcan wrote in Wed May 23, 2018 4:52 am:It's not really clear why you didn't follow your own advice and updated <actype> in the S7 traffic file last month rather than reworking PDB
S7?? wotzat?
for your edification, i did both... i updated the pdb as well as the traffic files... i ALSO detailed what i did in each file in the pdb topic so that you and anyone else could do the same... apparently you chose only to include what gooneybird did rather than to also include my work or just take the updated pdb file from the repo i pointed you guys to... i NEVER said i was going to apply them to the official repo NOR did i ever say that i was in a position to do that... you guys are already clearing the field so rather than me starting my own clearing project of the same field, i prefer to tell you about the problem, the fix and maybe even provide you with the patch and let you do the merging since you're already set up for it... if i also started doing it to fix these things, we'd very quickly come to loggerheads with conflicts... i don't want to do that but if that's what you prefer, then maybe i can accommodate you... even this tiff between us right now is drek and i hate it...
whatever... i'm just very disappointed that you didn't use the file AND make the traffic file changes i specifically noted in the pdb topic while i was doing that work... if you had wanted me to make those traffic file changes and send them to you, you didn't say that... if you had wanted me to send you the updated pdb file, i could have done that, too... BUT instead i did the repo thing to keep track of the changes to the pdb AND to make it easier for YOU to get to so you would not have to duplicate the work and possibly miss some things... but whatever...
no it hasn't... not completely... it is only partially fixed and only up to the point that it matches with your traffic files and updating schedule, whatever that is... did you even look at the file i posted from the repo?? the majik 8-ball says "unlikely"...
BecOzIcan wrote in Wed May 23, 2018 4:52 am:2. <actype> related issues are non blocking errors, with no demonstrated impact on system performance, care factor NIL
i don't care if they are blocking or not... they are ERRORS and they need to be fixed... sooner rather than later... look, man, i'm not trying to ""take over"" if that's what you think... i don't want to step on your's and others' toes... i just want to contribute and have that contribution accepted and utilized as given... you seem to be the chief indian of the ad hoc "AI Updater Group"... one of my main goals is finding and cleaning up logged errors or at least figuring out why they are happening and letting someone else who can fix them do so... i'm not a C/C++ coder but i can still wade in and find the problems... i can certainly fix the data... old data, new data, it is all the same and the errors should not exist... if that means updating old data files, then so be it... it is not wasted work if the error is removed even if the data file is completely rewritten some weeks from now...
BecOzIcan wrote in Wed May 23, 2018 4:52 am:3. What's on my TODO list is the rebuild of the S7 traffic, not some plastering of outdated data, because I consider the longer term and the big picture
again with the S7... no clue what that is... i'm not looking for ""plastering of outdated data"... i'm looking to fix/remove the error reports now rather than umpteen months down the road... i, too, look at the long term and the big picture... if i didn't i would never have even started trying to give something back to the community... have a day, sir...
PS: it looks like all those old parking.xml files and stuff in the old fgdata/AI/Airports tree are going to be removed... quite possibly that whole Airports tree... apparently there's no code at all in FG any more that reads parking.xml files... the rwyuse.xml files? there's only six of them (EHAM, KLAX, KOAK, KSFO, LEPA, OMDB) and it looks like they are already included in the terrasync/Airports tree along with only 12 others... i don't know if they are the same in both trees or not, though... no real big loss as few as they are...
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