Howdy, On Jan 24, 2008 7:51 PM, Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25/01/2008, Tom Haddon <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Office: +1-303-800-6609, Skype: happyhacking, IRC: Rinchen
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