I'm willing to throw a phone number out there: 760-486-9194
If I hear it ring, I answer it. It's not always close enough to wake me up when I'm asleep, though.
I have all the access that Jimmy has, including access to the remote power switch.
Jason Richey
Tim Starling wrote:
"Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com wrote in message news:3F30BFC1.5070602@pobox.com...
The wikidown address has been getting spam in the last few days... I don't know if Lee still has it forwarding to his beeper, but that could be awful annoying. :P
Suggestions?
I suggest doing away with the whole notification by email thing, and doing the following:
- Construct a register of developers, with names, phone numbers, time zones,
degree of server access (wikidev, root or physical) and availability. A few phrases in German might also be handy, like "hello can I speak to Magnus" for example.
- Distribute the register to the developers, and a small number of trusted
wikipediholics, strategically located in various time zones.
- When Wikipedia goes down, there's a 99.99% probablilty that one of the
wikipediholics will be online. Come to think of it, if you just gave it to Mav you'd have a 90% chance but we may as well be safe ;)
- The wikipediholics go to openfacts.berlios.de for coordination. They wait
a few minutes, and if no developer comes to assure them that the problem is under control, they start ringing developers, starting with people who are both awake and have root access.
We have had a number of crashes recently where the down-time has been extended from minutes to hours due to the lack of someone with the appropriate access on the scene. I think it's time we had a method to ensure that there is someone available to fix problems 24 hours a day.
-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau> (add punctuation to email)
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