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...).
Cheers, Magnus
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum#Zentrale_Info_.C3.BCber_Tech... [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/MaintenanceLog [3] https://jira.toolserver.org/display/tech/Maintenance+log [4] http://journal.toolserver.org/