[google-appengine] Re: Maintenance Timing

2009-08-23 Thread Ben Nevile
I second Jeff's call for some transparency here. Ben On Aug 18, 10:17 am, Jeff wrote: > Sometimes more warning isn't possible if maintenance is necessary to > avoid the system tipping over because of a problem.  But of course, if > it wasn't an emergency maintenance, then 22 hours of warning is

[google-appengine] Re: Maintenance Timing

2009-08-18 Thread Jeff
Sometimes more warning isn't possible if maintenance is necessary to avoid the system tipping over because of a problem. But of course, if it wasn't an emergency maintenance, then 22 hours of warning is definitely insufficient. But in spite of the comments above, I'll be quiet about this when Go

[google-appengine] Re: Maintenance Timing

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Nevile
+1 for more advance warning, please. Ben On Aug 17, 11:52 am, Joshua Smith wrote: > I really appreciate that you are warning us about the maintenance. > However, next time, I'd ask: > > 1) More warning, if possible; and, > > 2) Do it sometime other than the middle of the day in the United > S

[google-appengine] Re: Maintenance Timing

2009-08-18 Thread Thunder Developer
Who knows if your latte is the time in that low usage? Or u think they just 'decide' to do maintance and do it with no further studies of how the applications will be affected by that. One thing we have to think too is the applications that pays for storage. If the most part of the applications

[google-appengine] Re: Maintenance Timing

2009-08-17 Thread Joshua Smith
Fair enough, but I bet they could look at their own big-picture dashboards and find the low point of usage. And I *bet* that time will not just happen to be when the CA employees have finished their first latte. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message be

[google-appengine] Re: Maintenance Timing

2009-08-17 Thread Paul Kinlan
I think they are in a rock and a hard place, especially if it is critical work - Your late night is my early morning - it is a global service that could quite possibly have more developers in the rest of the world than there are in the US. Paul 2009/8/17 Joshua Smith > > I really appreciate th