more warning of planned downtime please?

[Joey Stanford]

Howdy,

On Jan 24, 2008 7:51 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> 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.

Ok.  I'll see what I can do to arrange a bug or spec to this effect. I
need to understand a bit more the difficulty in making this more
administrator friendly. Once I have that understanding I'll draft
something up.

> 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.

That's an interesting idea. I'll see how hard that is to implement.

>
>   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.

If we can make this a bit more admin friendly then this should not be
too complicated to add to settings panel.

Thanks for the input.

Joey



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