I have noticed a few times earlier on different sites an index pages with title “Please be patient, while we are deploying new software version. You’ll like it”. And one day, I decided that it is the time, to integrate the similar feature to our automated deployment process.
I think, that this page has to show user some indication of action progress(real or fictional), not just a static page, user has to refresh to see if it is finished or not. What user has to do – is just open once the site, see the message, that it is “Under construction”, and stay the page for a while.
It has to refresh itself until the time, deployment has finished. After that it has to load index page of new version’s website.
I wan’t to tell you, how and when this new index page is setting up. Right, all the deployment processes can vary a lot depending on the software it deploys, environment it uses, deployment tools etc.
