Comment 9 for bug 121828

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 09:32 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> I don't think the page can be made clear enough as long as it is trying
> to fulfil two very different purposes. It's like if we had a single page
> that covered both maintenance and 404 errors: no amount of rewriting
> could fix it.
>
> I'm not suggesting that the offline page be changed in version control
> during each rollout. I'm suggesting that we have two pages, both
> permanently in version control: one displayed during maintenance, and
> the other set up to display automatically during server glitches. Please
> tell me this is possible. :-) Then I'll make the separate glitch page,
> and you can work your wizardry to set it up.
>

We can do this, yes. Currently there's a page called "offline.html" in
lib/canonical/launchpad. If we can create two pages here (offline.html
and maintenance.html, for example), I can simply change the link to this
page ahead of any maintenance work, and then change it back at the end
of maintenance work.

I think we'll still need to link to the news.launchpad.net/maintenance
page for the details of the maintenance work to avoid having to change
it in bazaar, but I think in concept that should work as a way of
providing two separate pages.

I'm not sure who would be the best person to create/wordsmith those
pages - maybe yourself and Matthew Revell?

Thanks, Tom