Hello,
At Wednesday 17 August 2011 14:42:49 DaB. wrote:I guess we have to differ 2 cases: Emergency problems (like the outage tonight)
> 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...).
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.
> chnikprobleme [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/MaintenanceLog
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
>
> [1]
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum#Zentrale_Info_.C3.BCber_Te
--> [3] https://jira.toolserver.org/display/tech/Maintenance+log
> [4] http://journal.toolserver.org/
>
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