CUNY Academic Commons

I think that a very basic wp.com site with a status update would do.

Let us know whether you need models, Boone.

We will create a shortlink for it -- cuny.is/status -- when we have it.

Here's what I've done:

- Created a cunyacademiccommons account at wordpress.com, using the cunyacademiccommons@gmail.com address.
- Created https://commonsstatus.wordpress.com/ with that account, and did some basic configuration of the site.
- Modified our maintenance splash page to include a link.
- Added a custom error page for "Error connecting to the database" errors, which also contains a link to the status site.

See attached screenshots.

I've also reached out to Lihua about the possibility of custom Apache error pages, which would come into play for generic Apache errors (unrelated to MySQL).

I believe the next steps are for Stephen and the community team:
- Develop a protocol for who should post to the status blog, and when.
- Develop a protocol for sharing the wordpress.com credentials. I have them, and I can share them however the team thinks is best.
- Ensure that the folks with the keys to the social media streams are aware of the blog.

I've put this into the 1.9.30 milestone because that's when the custom maintenance and db-error.php pages will ship.

Whoops - I should keep this in 1.9.30, because that's when the code shipped to the Commons. Stephen, if you need new Redmine tickets for the non-code-related items described above, could you create them? Or perhaps we can decide on that stuff through the Commons group.