Suggestion: system wide banner in helpdesk when planned maintenance is ongoing
Summary
I recently raised an issue and learned only afterwards that planned maintenance was running. Clearly my fault. Since I assume a lot of developers are not aware of every maintenance window, would it be possible to set an announcement/administrative top banner in gitlab as long as maintenance is being executed? (I must admit, I don't know if gitlab has that feature, I only know it from lots of other applications like bitbucket.)
That way, developers coming here to raise an issue would eventually see that announcement and not create an issue.
If such a banner doesn't seem feasible, maybe some introductory text in the bug template like "Have you checked for maintenance at eclipsestatus.io?" would be an alternative. Anything you can come up with to point to the status page basically...
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