Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:47 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:49:41PM +0530, Steve Repo wrote:
> > You cannot expect a non-tech enduser to be even aware such lists exist.  I'd
> > expect tech-savvy and administrators to subscribe to such lists.
> 
> Personally, I'd ask said user for an e-mail address, then subscribe him
> myself.  But then again, I don't think users get to make decisions.
>  
> > A message such as "There has been a problem with update service. Click here
> > for detailed information (link to the website with the notice)" when yum
> > update is performed is appropriate,
> 
> I have no doubt that if you offer such a patch, and the infrastructure to
> host such a service, it will receive all the consideration it deserves.
> 
> Let's see... the service isn't working, nothing can be retrieved, but we're
> somehow going to retrieve this pointer to the message describing the
> failure to retrieve...

You mean like the "This site is undergoing maintainance, please check
back later" messages one sees from time to time. Gee, I wonder how they
do that ...

poc