more warning of planned downtime please?

[matt donovan]

On Jan 24, 2008 12:32 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:

> Tom tells me that a warning that Launchpad is about to be offline is
> displayed on every page for about 15 minutes before it goes down.  I
> think a longer warning period, say 24 hours, would be much more
> appropriate.  Obviously you want the warning to be visible but not too
> intrusive when the downtime is still a while off.
>
> I have had a few cases where I'm actively using Launchpad, but more
> than 15 minutes can elapse between web page views.  I might be looking
> at bugs and have preloaded many of them into tabs, or investigating
> what to do about them.  Or, as today, I am uploading to PPAs and only
> went to the web ui when I wondered what happened to them.
>
> I realize there are other avenues where I can find out that it will be
> down, but I don't look at them until it's actually offline ;-)
>
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Maybe a pop up of some sort doesn't really need to be a pop-up just that the
idea came to me can be used or do like my college's Angel does and put it up
for a few days before hand
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