maintenance-mode

How can I force a major upgrade to not switch to maintenance mode using the old installation package?

I have an installer that I would like to use for a major upgrade. I have done the following: Increased the version number (from a.b.c to a.b.c+1) Changed the ProductCode Kept the same UpgradeCode Made the appropriate entry in the Upgrade table Changed the component ID of an existing component Changed the name of the installer package ...

Unit Testing during maintenance phase

Our project is currently under maintenance. We have never had unit testing for this project. We were planning on writing unit test for the delta's rather than writing unit test for the entire application. What would be the preferred approach. Does it really add value to add unit testing during the maintenance phase ??? We are still with ...

Wordpress 3.0 and maintenance mode - A Problem

Hi. For some reason it seems that WP3.0 is bugged with everything relate to maintenance-mode. The 2 maintenance-mode plugins (maintenance-mode & wp-maintenance-mode) cause the following problems: wp-maintenance-mode doesn't allow u login as an admin. He just blocks you at the wp-login page. wp-maintenance-mode even doesnt influence ...

How is memcache.incr() affected by App Engine maintenance periods?

I'm working on an application that will run on Google App Engine. I would like it to respond gracefully to App Engine maintenance periods. According to the documentation, memcache will simply not store or retrieve data during maintenance periods: During a read-only maintenance period, calls to the memcache API will not throw exc...