more warning of planned downtime please?

[Martin Pool]

On 25/01/2008, Tom Haddon <tom at greenleaftech.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 17:18 -0700, Joey Stanford wrote:
> > 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?

That sounds perfect.  I would just add a countdown, since people
cannot always easily/accurate translate utc to local.  And, per the
other thread, I doubt people care about the version number.

  Launchpad will be offline for an upgrade on 21 Feb from 02:00 UTC
(18 hours from now), for no more than 90 minutes.

and link it to the news article.  That would have been great yesterday.

-- 
Martin