<div dir="ltr">Without seeing your planned schedule, timelines, and task lists its difficult to make any assessments/judgements. I made an open ended question trying to get some of that. I wasn't assuming any kind of bad faith, just that planned IT outages of more than 24 hours is normally unheard of unless there is critical hardware failures. I also commented that there may be <span class="gmail-im">extenuating circumstances that we are unaware of that would better establish the need for the prolonged outage.</span><span class="gmail-im"></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Yuvi Panda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yuvipanda@gmail.com" target="_blank">yuvipanda@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:19 AM, John <<a href="mailto:phoenixoverride@gmail.com">phoenixoverride@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Not to be crass, but why do you need a 48 hour complete outage? with proper<br>
> planning it shouldn't take more than a few hours unless there are<br>
> extenuating circumstances.<br>
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</span>Sorry, but this *is* crass, and assumes we aren't doing proper<br>
planning. Please AGF (and Assume Competence), and ask specific<br>
questions you might have.<br>
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