936452 - Create static status page for MDN maintenance

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

What problems would this solve?
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Inform users when MDN has network-level outages.

Who would use this?
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All MDN visitors

What would users see?
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A static page (ideally with tumbeasts) explaining that MDN is down for maintenance. Include links to dochub.io, kapeli.com/dash?ref=mdn, and http://zealdocs.org/?ref=mdn

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Visitors hit MDN and see a helpful status page with links where they can get their information. They can visit a link to get offline apps.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Under the offline links we should emphasize that MDN will always contain the latest and greatest information. :)

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Ali, who should create the content/copy for this offline status page? Can you needinfo? them?

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Draft of content here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Development/MaintenanceNotice

Comment 3

[ali spivak]

Do we want to add the datea/times to this, or is it better to keep it generic???

Comment 4

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

(In reply to ali spivak from comment #3)
> Do we want to add the datea/times to this, or is it better to keep it
> generic???

I don't think date needs to be there, if this is the offline status -- people should know the date. I did add a line at the end indicating when it should be back online.

Comment 5

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/pull/1646

Screenshot of the static maintenance page with static assets delivered via CDN:

http://screencast.com/t/fEXlmhjCJXw4

Per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935002#c22 we may or may not have static assets from the CDN available. So, here's a screenshot of the static maintenance page *missing* some static assets via CDN:

http://screencast.com/t/gJYlezJu6vjn

David - I think we should merge what we have so we have something in place; we can continue to work on copying the static assets from the CDN to the maintenance package. What do you think?

Comment 6

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

I think we should bring down relevant images, add them to a zip file, and send them with the index.html file.  We shouldn't rely on CDN and it shouldn't take  long to do it.

Comment 7

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/b585d9b14ef1a7e4700499543564a60a22aeee74
Fix bug 936452: Add static maintenance page

The only intention here is to keep these files under revision control.
Getting them served up will always require additional work.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/b9e8859d26972275d4c4ddf9c2ef71aa520fab43
Merge pull request #1646 from openjck/maintenance-page

Fix bug 936452: Add static maintenance page