[Dune] Problems with server in Heidelberg

[Jö Fahlke]

Am Mon, 31. Aug 2015, 13:23:13 +0200 schrieb Christian Engwer:
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:23:13 +0200
> From: Christian Engwer <christian.engwer at uni-muenster.de>
> To: Steffen Müthing <steffen.muething at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
> Cc: Dune <dune at dune-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Dune] Problems with server in Heidelberg
> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:44:05AM +0200, Steffen Müthing wrote:
> > 
> > > Am 28.08.2015 um 18:30 schrieb Christian Engwer <christian.engwer at uni-muenster.de>:
> > > 
> > > Hi Steffen, alternatively, we could move the mailing lists to the new
> > > server already, they are all standard mailman stuff, so there
> > > shouldn't be a big problem.
> > 
> > But that still wouldn’t solve the problem of only having a single communication channel, would
> > it? If the network here in Heidelberg falls over for a day, the mailing lists are gone. Having some
> > other means to at least tell people what’s wrong and how long it will take to fix it might be
> > useful.
> 
> that is true, but how many people on this list follow twitter?
> 
> I honestly have no clue, which cannel would work out. Some people use
> irc, again only a few. My feeling is that a split infrastructure
> should be sufficient... but I would not insist on the one or the other
> solution.

Just to give you an idea:  I propably would not follow any twitter messages.
I don't follow twitter currently, I would need to create an account, And that
would mean I would need to read their term&conditions.  It is easier for me to
simply call someone in Heidelberg and ask what the matter if the server is
down.  (I know that might be difficult for other poeple who do not remember
the Heidelberg phone numbers and don't have them written down either.  And the
Heidelberg guys will probably be annoyed if everyone does that.)

I _would_ hang out in a #dune irc channel.  Likewise some jabber equivalent.

Such a channel may be a good idea for reasons other than failing
infrastructure: much user support is best done interactively.

Another possibility would be for one or two people to get a daily copy of the
list members, in the event of infrastructure failure they can notify all list
members without using the list.  Probably not the best idea though, since that
will only be used in exceptional circumstances, und thus see little testing.

Regards,
Jö.

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