page? This
will mean that there is no manual updating for statusses anymore.
2011/8/17 DaB. <WP(a)daniel.baur4.info>
Hello,
At Wednesday 17 August 2011 14:42:49 DaB. wrote:
Several users were worried about toolserver tools
that stopped working
without (to them) apparent reason. I have tried to explain in in
non-tech-German [1] and it seems that helped.
I was then asked if these issues are communicated somewhere centrally.
I found [2], which points to [3], which returns 404. It would probably
be too technical anyway.
status.toolserver.org would not help the
average user either, even if it were always up-to-date.
So, should issues that affect the toolserver users (either the
code-writing or the tool-using, or both) be mentioned somewhere? There
is the toolserver blog [4], with the last entry from February 2010...
I think if all toolserver admins had write access to that blog, one of
them could spare 5 minutes (if that) to update the general public
about major issues or changes (changing stuff on the toolserver, even
supposedly minor changes, tends to break stuff...).
I guess we have to differ 2 cases: Emergency problems (like the outage
tonight)
and the rest. During emergencies all the roots have time for is to update
status.toolserver.org (which was repaired last night) and maybe an eMail
to
announce. I think it is clear that we than have other things to do then
writing long texts ;-).
For all other thing I think a revive of the blog would be great (I first
have
to remember how to login there). What is not an option is to write
something
at all/most/few wikis – but you (the tool-programmers) can do what. You
speak
the languages and know where to write it (so thanks to you magnus that you
informed commons).
Sincerly,
DaB.
Cheers,
Magnus
[1]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum#Zentrale_Info_.C3.BCber_Te
chnikprobleme [2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/MaintenanceLog
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