2025-02-06 Shadow your schedules
Hotpot release for 2025-02-06
Last updated
Changelog
Hotpot release for 2025-02-06
Last updated
Shadowing is a common practice in on-call. It's a really helpful technique for training new team members or for helping out the primary on-call when you're about to do something that might cause some noise. By shadowing for an hour you can give some context and help the primary avoid some expensive debugging!
Sadly, shadowing in existing on-call products is an exercise in frustration. Many teams have cobbled something together, but Hotpot is here to change all that!
Hotpot now supports adding shadows to schedules. You can add them for a brief period, or even open-ended:
The shadow will be notified alongside the existing on-call, meaning they will receive any notifications for the stage they are shadowing. This allows them to stay on top of events and work alongside the on-call.
You can learn more about shadows in our documentation!
Managing a multistage schedule is now easier with a quick button on the schedule page:
Backend: Improve our linters. Safer stuff!
General: Many nits grammar of, speling fixes, and Captialization Improvements have been made.
General: Fenced codeblocks in Markdown-enabled places now behave.
Nav: Our changelog is now linked from the footer.
Nav: The unlabeled button atop the page that was for contact using has been removed in favor of the one in the footer.
Pages: We only show the right chevron in the header when there are pages worth your attention.
Triage: Text for moment groups has been made less bold and the group names can be twice as long!
UI: Bulk moment and page selection have been improved.
UI: Dark mode improvements for assignment summaries.
UI: The assignment summary "Why?" button is now less likely to disappear.
UI: CSS cleanups for various UI buttons. No visual difference, but less legacy stuff for us!
