I'm willing to throw a phone number out there: 760-486-9194
If I hear it ring, I answer it. It's not always close enough to wake
me up when I'm asleep, though.
I have all the access that Jimmy has, including access to the remote
power switch.
Jason Richey
Tim Starling wrote:
"Brion Vibber" <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote in
message news:3F30BFC1.5070602@pobox.com...
The wikidown address has been getting spam in the
last few days... I
don't know if Lee still has it forwarding to his beeper, but that could
be awful annoying. :P
Suggestions?
I suggest doing away with the whole notification by email thing, and doing
the following:
* Construct a register of developers, with names, phone numbers, time zones,
degree of server access (wikidev, root or physical) and availability. A few
phrases in German might also be handy, like "hello can I speak to Magnus"
for example.
* Distribute the register to the developers, and a small number of trusted
wikipediholics, strategically located in various time zones.
* When Wikipedia goes down, there's a 99.99% probablilty that one of the
wikipediholics will be online. Come to think of it, if you just gave it to
Mav you'd have a 90% chance but we may as well be safe ;)
* The wikipediholics go to openfacts.berlios.de for coordination. They wait
a few minutes, and if no developer comes to assure them that the problem is
under control, they start ringing developers, starting with people who are
both awake and have root access.
We have had a number of crashes recently where the down-time has been
extended from minutes to hours due to the lack of someone with the
appropriate access on the scene. I think it's time we had a method to ensure
that there is someone available to fix problems 24 hours a day.
-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau> (add punctuation to email)
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