more warning of planned downtime please?

[Tom Haddon]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 17:18 -0700, Joey Stanford wrote:
> Hi Tom (et al),
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Interesting idea.
> 
> Are you thinking perhaps of, instead of the grey banner on edge that
> reads "This site is running pre-release code. Please report all bugs."
> to have something more visible, perhaps a dark red with white text
> which reads, within a few days of a roll-out, something like "We'll be
> updating Launchpad to version 1.2.2 on 21 February from 02:00 to 03:00
> UTC."  and then within an hour or so of the roll-out add the warning
> text of downtime that we have already?

Er, yeah, what you said! I don't think I'd fully thought out what I was
suggesting, but if I was, it'd be very close to this.

Thanks, Tom

> 
> Joey
>