2009/10/6 Jonathan Lange <[email protected]>: >>> Right now, we have a page on the blog (/maintenance), a >>> "notifications" category on the blog, the general Launchpad >>> Twitter/identi.ca accounts, the launchpad-announce list. >>> >>> Anything that requires more explanation could still be posted to the >>> notifications of the blog and anything that pretty much every LP user >>> needs to know about should go out to the -announce list. I'm not sure >>> what to do with the maintenance page, other than move it to the dev >>> wiki; I think we could use it to list planned maintenance times, as we >>> do now, but the identi.ca page should do that. The only advantage, I >>> see, of retaining the maintenance page is that it allows us to show >>> fairly far off into the future what's planned, whereas the identi.ca >>> account would be a moving target. >> >> I think the maintenance page is fine as it is, it should just point to >> the microblogging pages. >> > > Really, the codebrowse error page should also point to this identica > page. At the moment, it just says "Internal server error".
I've filed bug https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/loggerhead/+bug/444616 and will fix it. >> It would be good to have links to there from the top of >> help.launchpad.net and possibly even from the footer of every page. >> (Why? Because tweets are a good way to communicate about stuff >> generally, and because if it's failing and help.l.n can't be reached, >> people may still have a page showing the footer.) >> > > I'm not 100% sure about that one. The benefits are as you say, the > risk is that the footer will become cluttered and that having a > permanent link to our operational status will make Launchpad.net seem > more unreliable than it is. Perhaps these can be disregarded. I don't think either of those suggested problems need concern us: there's plenty of space in the footer and it's pretty common practice for web-based services to link to a status page. If anything, it shows we're comfortable in our stability as we're up-front about our status page. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and use the separate accounts (i.e. launchpadstatus) as I feel it's important to allow people to get just the status info if that's what they want. Thanks everyone for your input. -- Matthew Revell - Launchpad.net - free software collaboration and project hosting _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
