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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/8/14 Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> I think that's the hard part. A manually updated system status page
>> could quickly become inaccurate. Can't we automate it somehow?
> 
> Automation is very nice, but this spec has been waiting a long time,
> and there have been multiple unexpected critical outages in the
> interim.  They confuse users and make the system look more flaky than
> it actually is.
> 
> What I'm suggesting is a page that describes only known critical outages.
> 
> We don't need automation to add things to that page because by
> definition if they're known, they have someone's attention.  We just
> need to add this small step of updating the page to the critical
> outage procedure.
> 
> Similarly, when we either fix or downgrade the issue, we just need to
> update it to say so.


It would be great if this status page could also detail the status of
automatic staging/edge rollouts - e.g. "AUTOMATIC (daily XX:XX UTC)" or
"SUSPENDED (reason)".


Max.

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