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Re: no warning for readonly mode?

To: Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Tom Haddon <tom.haddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:01:25 +0100
Cc: LOSAs <losas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Launchpad Community Development Team <launchpad-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <AANLkTin7kOr9U+1gQRtpjYRV7ARop+scYwHe7iFsMwS3@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 19:06 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> Launchpad just went readonly to upgrade the database for a planned
> upgrade.  (Not ideal, but I know we're working on it, and that's
> fine.)
> 
>  * Tweeting about this 18 hours in advance is kind of missing the
> point of twitter/identi.ca.  We should tweet shortly before it
> happens, saying "in 10m, for 15m".
> 
>  * There was no warning in the web ui.  Why not?

I held off on doing this because the message that appears isn't exactly
accurate - it basically says Launchpad is going down for maintenance. In
retrospect, it would maybe have been better to display something than
nothing. Ideally, we'd get this bug fixed:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/438727

Thanks, Tom