[HCoop-Discuss] Machine reboots Jan 20th

[Lauren McNees]

Unless most members have non-hcoop-hosted e-mail addresses to receive
mailing list e-mails, I would vote for a blog or something like it. I'm not
familiar with identi.ca but it looks very similar to twitter and I think
that would work great. Much easier to access than IRC. Thanks.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Richard Darst <rkd at hcoop.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:33:54AM +0530, Tanveer Singh wrote:
> > I have proposal. Admins can branch it into a new thread if required.
> > All our lists are on hcoop itself. So if hcoop goes down, IRC is the only
> > channel of communitcation, and from work etc., its not possible to access
> > IRC due to firewall issues.
> > So it would be great if we moved the lists to google groups or something
> > like that so that when services go down, somebody can holler and a mail
> gets
> > sent to all the admins.
>
> This seems to be a good idea to me.  Do you think a mailing list is
> best (should everyone get mail when something happens?  What should
> the threshold for mail be: "service down", "working on it", "it's all
> up again")?
>
> What about a blog or identi.ca stream?  That way we could post more
> frequent updates, and only those interested need check - and could
> always subscribe to the rss feeds, and more frequent updates here
> would be less annoying to some people.
>
> For those that don't actively follow things on IRC, what would be
> useful to you?
>
> > Regarding adding more admins, there are some tasks which may not require
> > much technical expertise, for example, rebooting all machines.
> > So for that even I can be an admin as I know basic unix and scripting and
> > can install a Linux OS on a home machine. But thats the peak of my
> > capability.
>
> The current senior admins can see, but this specific thing was more of
> an exception with several travelers and me not yet quite added.  And,
> rebooting is more complicated than it seems... as we figured out this
> morning.
>
> We'll keep trying to involve more people.  I think the most important
> thing is to get known by the community.
>
>
> Thanks for your ideas,
>
> - Richard
>
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