I don't get this. Would it be possible in future, if the sites are unresponsive, or will be unresponsive due to planned maintenance, to establish a fallback that simply displays an explanatory status message to the public?
FT2 On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > (snip) > The people who might have been able to > change the error message were busy diagnosing and fixing the problem. > > When we have a lengthy period of downtime, more sysadmins arrive > online, and a wider perspective on the problem develops, including > attention to community impact and communication. But since the > downtime in this case was only half an hour, there was not enough time > for this to happen. > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
