[outages] how about an Outages Google Calander?

Gadi Evron ge at linuxbox.org
Wed May 12 15:28:49 EDT 2010


On 5/12/10 5:46 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On May 12, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Gadi Evron wrote:
>
>> The name is self-explanatory, and it can be a great way to track and to parse upcoming outages.
>>
>> I think this is as good an idea as the outages@ list was when Vicky first thought of it and wasn't sure whether to pursue it, and I'd support any action to create it, once again.
>
> Since you said "upcoming", I am going to assume you mean planned outages, maintenances, etc.  If that is wrong, please correct me.
>
> How do you pare it down to something useful?  If every network, or even 10%, hell 1% of the networks world-wide put data in there, every day will be a solid block of multiple outages in every time slot.
>
> You could organize by geography, perhaps even by country, which would help.  But the fire-hose of data regarding planned outages would be insane.

Valid points, and much about scalability and parse-ability. I think this 
should be taken off-list anyway, I will once again bow before Vicky to 
lead this, as he would be best for the job.



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