Re: New email list for emergency communications

Robert Treat wrote:
> > Try to communicate that you are working on a specific problem. One
> > possible solution: a status page, was already mentioned earlier.
> >
> >
> 
> I have a couple of thoughts wrt this. AUIU we're using nagios, it should be 
> possible to set up sysadmins and bruce with nagios accounts so we can login 
> and view the pretty colors that explain what is up or down. 

Yes, Magnus has already set me up with a nagio account.

> Second, as I think about it, I think the only member of our sysadmin team who 
> has ops on IRC is Joshua. Perhaps we should see about having a number of us 
> get ops so we can post notices there. It won't reach everyone, but would hit 
> a large % of people, and the network is completly seperate in all ways from 
> the postgresql.org infrastructure. 

I have IRC ops too.  But I am really looking for something that notifies
me that there is a problem, rather than having me go looking for
information.  If email is down, people should be able to subscribe to
alerts and status reports.

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