On 17 August 2013 11:59, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
yes because there was a problem with the os upgrade, the box is up, but I do not have ssh access, something pctony has promised to look into. Once I get ssh access I will stop httpd. > > So having a redirect page would be useful to prevent people sending > unnecessary reports. > Agreed, and I asked for somebody to come up with a page (we need it in different languages) but none did, so I assume it was the kind of wish "it would be nice if someone else does it". > > Also people are more likely to accept that an entire site is down, > whereas a site that is partly broken gives a worse impression. > agreed, and feel free to do it better than me. Without access and pctony busy its kind of hard to do something about it. I dont hope you think I left it like this on purpose (it really sounds like it), I am a bit more pro. than that, but I do need root@ to go in via the console and repair sshd. > Please consider adding a maintenance page. > please consider mailing html to add, or prove my point above. rgds jan I. > > [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 > >
