[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14393: Maintenance mode overkill. Please refine usage of it

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#14393: Maintenance mode overkill. Please refine usage of it
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 Reporter:  bike             |       Owner:                  
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review 
Component:  General          |     Version:                  
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  Maintenance mode
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 Though many tickets have been posted about the Maintenance Mode not
 resolving, I think that the problem is on a different level.

 It is unacceptable that even a failed upgrade of an inactive theme can
 break a complete Site or even Network. Case in point: I just followed the
 upgrade alert for an inactive theme, hosted on the WordPRess theme
 repository.
 (Apparently it had an error (Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT
 (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature.) But the point
 is, this should not have put the entire network in maintenance mode for 10
 minutes.

 Maybe a check can be done for plugins, themes etc: if they are active,
 then maintenance mode can be used (though I am definitely not a fan of it
 anyway).

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