[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/2/10 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>:
> On 09/02/2011, at 4:35, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Le mardi 08 février 2011 à 22:48 +0530, Bartol Flint a écrit :
>>>
>>
>>> Is there someplace I can follow what the status is - like on twitter??
>>
>> A public status dashboard is available at http://status.wikimedia.org
>>
>> Technical details are automatically pushed to identi.ca and twitter:
>> http://identi.ca/wikimediatech
>> http://twitter.
>
> On a more general note, does the error page we display when the site goes down (for whatever reason) link to theses places? From what I remember from last time I saw that page it only links to an IRC channel. Perhaps it should refer people to the status dashboard and also link to the donation page?

See also:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_1.17/Wikimedia_deployment

Summary: A page that explains about the problem or the upgrade should
not hosted be on the same server which being upgraded and is
experiencing the problem.