Talk:Maintenance mode

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The current article seems to define "maintenance mode" in terms of software life-cycle, but there are other uses of the term. For example, the Drupal CMS uses the term "maintenance mode" to refer to a state in which a website is purposely made unavailable to end-users, in a graceful way, while scheduled maintenance tasks take place, such as upgrades or fixes. The term is naturally also used for the Drupal feature (or other software features) that allow a site to be put into "maintenance mode", which could be compared to the classic "under construction" mode. I suspect that most Drupal developers would recognize that terminology, e.g.:

https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/how-to-put-drupal-7-in-maintenance-mode/

http://www.drupaldude.com/content/drupals-site-maintenance-mode

http://drupal.uq.edu.au/guide/maintenance-mode

Perhaps there would need to be a disambiguation page to accommodate different uses of the term? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.45.39 (talk) 09:43, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]