On Nov 29, 2011 11:25 AM, "Guillaume Paumier" gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
My gut feeling is that the few people reading these feeds are also those that would know to check the SLA if they encountered an issue, or know how to use the RSS feed of the SLA page if they really wanted the information in real time.
I think "server admin log" is usually abbreviated as SAL, not SLA. ;-)
Meanwhile, we don't really have social media channels dedicated to Wikimedia tech stuff, i.e. channels where we can actually post stuff, links, blog posts, outage info, etc and engage with a larger community of people interested in our tech operations. I feel that the accounts would be much more useful if we reduced the amount of semi-random information we post there.
So, I'm basically proposing to repurpose the @wikimediatech accounts for this.
Brion Vibber wrote:
Most likely we would be better off with human updates in there, but we may need some designated tweeters to make sure it happens reliably when there are issues to report, new features to mention, or upcoming stuff we want feedback on.
I agree with Brion. Human updates would be nice. The truncated and often context-less messages in the current feed are rather useless.
MZMcBride