[Toolserver-l] Better toolserver status?

[Huib Laurens]

Just wondering...

Can't wikimedia add the toolserver to the status.wikimedia.org page? This
will mean that there is no manual updating for statusses anymore.

2011/8/17 DaB. <WP at 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
> > [3] https://jira.toolserver.org/display/tech/Maintenance+log
> > [4] http://journal.toolserver.org/
> >
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Huib Laurens
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