On 17 August 2013 09:01, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > sebb wrote: > >> On 17 August 2013 06:35, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> >>> The OpenOffice Forum server will be offline until sometime on Sunday >>> evening (UTC) for major OS and phpBB upgrades >> >> Can't the Forum URLs be temporarily redirected to a page that explains >> this? > > > Sure, but this would require coordination and actually the redirection would > need to be at the DNS level, since the operating system and web server are > being upgraded too. > > As Jan wrote, nobody sent him the text of a notice to put online instead of > the error message you see now (which will only appear for brief periods > anyway; most of the time httpd will be down) and he didn't put anything.
I have yet to find that the entire site [1] is down, but the forums are responding with SQL error messages. So having a redirect page would be useful to prevent people sending unnecessary reports. Also people are more likely to accept that an entire site is down, whereas a site that is partly broken gives a worse impression. Please consider adding a maintenance page. [1] http://forum.openoffice.org/ > I've now added a note to http://www.openoffice.org/contact_us.html , the > source of the mails we are receiving, to explain that the forums are under > maintenance. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
