more warning of planned downtime please?

[Tom Haddon]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:47 -0500, matt donovan wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 think the key here would be that you could turn off the notification
if you wanted. With our current setup, the notice is displayed
continuously with no option to hide it, and it takes up a relatively
large amount of screen real estate. If we are going to show the
notification for longer, we would need a way to make it more discreet
and/or an option to hide it. Something like the "edge" site notification
might be appropriate...

Thanks, Tom

>         
>         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