Skip to content
Merged
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
6 changes: 2 additions & 4 deletions contents/handbook/marketing/product-announcements.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ We do not typically do public relations for anything other than company-level ne

Occasionally, we have to conduct scheduled maintenance. When this happens, it's important that we tell users about it in advance if they would experience any disruption.

> If you're aware of any upcoming maintenance which would cause disruption, please inform the Support, Brand, and Customer Success teams as soon as possible. Brand will ensure that users are notified as the work is planned and completed. Customer Success may wish to inform specific users at the time.
> If you're aware of any upcoming maintenance which would cause disruption, please inform the Support, Marketing, and Customer Success teams as soon as possible. Marketing will ensure that users are notified as the work is planned and completed. Customer Success may wish to inform specific users at the time.

Typically, Product Marketers take responsibility for informing users about maintenance work beforehand by telling users who will be impacted through email and other channels.

Expand All @@ -75,9 +75,7 @@ When informing users about maintenance, it is important to answer all of the fol
- What will the impact be? Will insights, etc., still function?
- Why is the maintenance being done, and what benefit will there be for users?

While maintenance is being carried out, we typically use the Notification Bar app within PostHog to tell users that work is ongoing and direct them firstly to `/service-message` where we will provide further information. Once the maintenance is finished, the `service-message` page is updated to reflect that no maintenance is underway, and the banner is removed.

> The Brand team tries to ensure good, regular communication with other teams across PostHog, but mainly relies on [highlighted PRs](https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22highlight+%3Astar%3A%22+is%3Aclosed) to find what has shipped in order to avoid burdening engineers with more meetings. ***If you have a shipped feature you want to see included in PostHog announcements, please add a highlight tag and a reasonable description to the PR.** Here's [an example of a good PR description](https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/13414). Alternatively, you can cover it in the all-hands meeting, or post in the #tell-posthog-anything Slack channel.
We typically notify users of upcoming maintenance by email, so the Marketing team will need a way to target the correct users before they can update them. For smaller maintenance updates which will not cause any user updates, engineering teams can also update our status page.

## Incidents communications

Expand Down
79 changes: 0 additions & 79 deletions contents/service-message.mdx

This file was deleted.