Notify NERC OpenShift production users of planned downtime.

[msdisme]

Motivation

1. To identify course-related blockout dates so we may pick a set of dates.
2. To notify TAs, TFs, and students of the outage.

Completion Criteria

• [x] blockout dates identified
• [ ] people to notify identified an confirmed in mailing lists emails
• [ ] #735 date scheduled Sept 30th, prefered
• [ ] email notification and other nerc notification channels sent/added

Description

• [x] Check course times in catalog, make a table with them
• [x] mail sent to teachers
• [ ] confirm planned outage date with teachers (eg. no project impact)
• [x] mail sent to Heidi
• [ ] confirm planned outage date with Heidi
• [x] Draft email (may be in parallel)
• [ ] send email

Completion dates

Desired - 2024-09-20 Required - 2024-09-23 if outage is planned for 9/30

[msdisme]

Based on course times @msdisme will verify with instructors and Heid that October 10th after 11am is ok and that they will communicate it to their users.

[msdisme]

Neither proposed date worked. I will be sending a survevy on oct 4 to identify a date that does. In the meantime @jtriley we probably want to revisit the other options you mentioned.