Friday, March 16, 2007 at 1:26 We are receiving reports from PCAs that they have not received any XML files in their FTP area. We are currently investigating this and will let you know what has happened as soon as we can.
Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 2:25 Please be advised that the delivery of the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People will be approximately one and a half hours late today and we do not expect to be able to deliver them to you until at least 3:30.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 0:44 Just to confirm that we have now successfully completed the integration and installation of the new Storage Area Network (SAN) into the eClips system architecture.
However we now need to perform some emergency maintenance on the system which will require us to take down the system for approximately 1 hour on Sunday afternoon. This maintenance will take place between 15:00 – 16:00 Sunday 4th March. To confirm there will be no access to the system during this time.
We do apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Please circulate this information to all relevant people in your organisation and if you have any queries with regards to this then please contact clientservices@nla.co.uk during office hours or support@nla.co.uk outside of office hours.
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 14:53 This coming Saturday from 10:00am we will be completing the final phase of our Data Migration Project by installing the Storage Area Network (SAN) into the eClips system architecture. The installation should be completed before the nightly production run begins and should have no impact on this part of the service.
The data migration has been designed to have very little or no impact on our clients, however during this maintenance window we expect periods of downtime on our web and FTP servers therefore you may experience intermittent problems though we will try to keep disruptions to a minimum. The installation of the SAN will provide us with enough expansion to accommodate growth for the next 36 months (and possibly beyond), but should also provide improved performance to our existing services.
Please circulate this information to all relevant people in your organisation and if you have any queries with regards to this then please contact clientservices@nla.co.uk
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 11:51 We're happy to announce the roll out of our new support ticketing system, Bugzilla. We have been using Bugzilla internally for the past 18 months to track internal development and client issues and we have been very happy with the results so far. Here’s part of the Wikipedia entry about Bugzilla.
“Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bug tracking tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project. Released as open source software by Netscape Communications in 1998, Bugzilla has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a defect tracker for both free software and proprietary products.”
“Bugzilla's notion of a "bug" is very general, and Bugzilla uses the term "bug" to track not only software bugs but also all other user-submitted tracking tickets; for instance, Mozilla.org and the MediaWiki project use it to track feature requests as well. Bugs can be submitted by anybody, and will be assigned to a particular developer. Various status updates for each bug are allowed, together with user notes and bug examples.”
Although we are rolling out this new system in response to the new requirements placed on us by the new contract and SLA, we are very excited about the new functionality it gives us.
We can now
It also gives the PCAs a much better view of what’s happening.
Our goal is to have all PCAs who subscribe to eClips using Bugzilla by the end of March, so someone from the Client Services team will contact you this week to schedule a training session.