I totally agree with Thomas. On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com > wrote:
> So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it > possible in future to update the error message to explain that maintenance > is ongoing? > > Seeing as how widely WMF projects are used by a non-technical project the > current MySQL connection error I am seeing on Commons is just going to > cause > confusion :) And the standard error page WIkipedia was showing a minute ago > is not particularly helpful/explanatory in this specific situation. > > Indeed, given the almost certainty of downtime from this maintenance, would > it not just be best to bite the bullet (in such cases) and take the > affected > sites off-line with a useful maintenance message? It's essentially the same > end point. > > What's the best way of addressing this suggestion to the right people? > (i.e. > the ops team?) > > Tom > > On 23 May 2011 21:19, Guillaume Paumier <gpaum...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > The Wikimedia Foundation will be performing network maintenance on > > Tuesday, May 24 between 13:00 and 14:00 (UTC) (see other timezones on > > timeanddate.com: http://ur1.ca/49cl2 ). > > > > During the maintenance period, you may experience intermittent > > connection issues to Wikimedia Foundation websites, including > > wikipedia.org. > > > > We have been experiencing router networking issues (and as a direct > > result, latency issues) since last week. After much investigation, and > > temporary fixes, the Operations team decided to update the router > > software and tune the configuration. > > > > We apologize for the inconvenience. > > > > -- > > Guillaume Paumier > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
