Read Only Modes in Discourse

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@pmusaraj

I’m not too familiar with this, but I think it would be confusing for enable_readonly_mode to set the site to a staff_writes_only_mode.

I would agree, but it would be much less confusing than “set read only mode for a while”.

@pmusaraj

you’d want staff to not be allowed writes on the DB (during a restore, for example, they’ll get removed).

I’m pretty sure that the restore script sets read-only mode itself, so it’s not affected by this command.

@pmusaraj

• clarify that the readonly moed sets a TTL in that task’s description

I’d rather it proclaim that it is set for X minutes when it’s set. It’s not that easy to find the description.

@pmusaraj

• add a task that invokes keep_readonly_mode so it can be extended to more than 60 mins

Perhaps. I’m not clear who would use it.

@pmusaraj

1. add enable_staff_writes_only and disable_staff_writes_only tasks

That would be great!

Also, we need to be clear that we’re not conflating the rake tasks with the commands available through the discourse command.