2011/5/25 Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>: > On 25/05/11 22:27, Strainu wrote: >> What I understood from this thread is: if you have a planned >> maintenance windows between 13 and 14 GMT, it would be appreciated if >> you could: >> - create a simple page that says: "We are working on our servers >> between 13 and 14 GMT and Wikipedia might be unavailable during that >> time" >> - replace the usual error message with the newly created page as close >> as possible to 12:59 >> - reinstate the usual error message at 14:01 (or whenever the maintenance >> ends) > > There are dozens of places where error messages are generated. It's > not trivial to replace them all. Some of them are hard-coded in > compiled binaries, some are on the client side. > [...]
I kind of anticipated that response, but it's nice to have it written somewhere. I think it is now clear for everybody why there is a need for more sysadmins and/or developers to handle such issues. I believe much of this thread could have been avoided (and this means less time wasted writing emails for you guys) if you had stated that in your first email. Strainu _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
