Voting app offline time?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:51:09AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:14:46AM +1000, Nigel Jones wrote:
> > We had some the original DB downtime ~1-2 hours, then downtime due to
> > fas not been around ~1-2 hours, plus a DB downtime of ~2-3 hours and a
> > VPN downtime of about an hour.
> > 
> > All in all, I think it meets the 1 day extension criteria.
> 
> Yup, top-side estimates add up to 8 hours, so we should extend the
> voting by one day as agreed.  Make it so! ;-)

And... after making the announcement, it's come to light that there
are some DNS issues outstanding which could potentially have presented
a problem to voters.

Toshio helpfully offered that this breakage seems to have come about
as a result of a puppet commit on 2009-12-14 UTC 0310.  If that's
correct, and problems continue through 2009-12-15 UTC 0310, we need to
extend by another day, and continue to slip that closing time by
another day as needed for each 24-hour period in which the problem
isn't resolved.

I'll get with Nigel and ask him to slip the deadline for election
voting by one additional day, so we'll be looking right now at a close
of 2009-12-17 UTC 2359.

Paul