Date: 2024-05-22
Accepted or Rejected
Valid ADR statuses are: "Proposed", "Accepted", "Rejected", "Deprecated", "Superseded by ADRzzz", but since we use the GitHub Pull request mechanism to approve ADRs, "Proposed" isn't applicable.
As GOV.UK Forms goes in to public beta and beyond, we expect our user base to expand, and to be overall less directly engaged with our users. We have good means for broadcasting product news to our users, but we don't yet have a way of broadcasting information about ongoing incidents. We will need that ability, and it should be external to the service so that a service outage is not also on outage to our ability to communicate about said outage.
We have decided to pay for the StatusPage service. This is the conventional approach within GDS, however that fact is not documented anywhere currently.
We are reliant on StatusPage being operational to alert our users to ongoing incidents. The beneficial trade-off we get for this is a managed and reliable service for reporting incidents.