On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:31:20 +0200 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 22.08.2014 09:17, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > >> On 21.08.2014 17:04, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >>> It is unfortunate that this happens on the OpenOffice release day > >> I hope that next time at least the PMC chairs are informed a couple of > >> days in front of such events in order to allow the projects to plan > >> their releases. > > > > The [email protected] mailing list (which is not publicly > > archived, as far as I know, but still allows all committers to > > subscribe, see http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-mail.html ; and several > > of us are indeed subscribed) was notified 6 hours in advance. > > > > Normally they try to give indeed a couple days' notice. Our release was > > already published when they scheduled this maintenance window. But > > fortunately the RAM updates were quick and smooth, so disruption was > > probably minimal. > > > > Yes, I have seen this message afterwards and I can understand that Infra > does not inform all the projects which are affected. But, in my opinion > Infra should had informed at least the PMC chairs directly, because > nobody can expect that a project first searches the ASF Infra mailing > lists for relevant information. I felt more worse than Arthur Dent when > I got notice about this scheduled outage regarding our release. > > Best regards, Oliver. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > There was only one complaint on the en-Forum of inaccessibility; by the time this was posted the servers were back online, so I think disruption was minimal. -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
