Comment 6 for bug 121828

Tom, the problem here is not that there are ever problems with the servers contacting each other. The problem is that Launchpad claims it is offline for maintenance when it is not.

There are people who know when Launchpad is genuinely offline for maintenance, namely the people who are doing that maintenance. Therefore those people should be able to activate a page that says something like "Sorry, Launchpad is offline for maintenance, try again in 30 minutes". Meanwhile, the normal error page can say "Sorry, there was a temporary problem, try reloading".