Suggestions for increased transparency (#95)

* Suggestions for increased transparency

This PR suggests some text changes to the copy, and adds back a chronology.

Because our site is used by:

1. Auditors and auditees submitting audits
2. State auditors (and other entities) responsible for passthrough monitoring
3. Federal audit resolution officials
4. IG offices
5. Grants managers/grants issuing offices
6. GAO
8. OMB
9. The general public
10. ...

I think credibility is enhanced by transparency, and because we have a
public record of our efforts in this space (our Github repository), I
think we should use it to document the actions we've taken so far.

For consideration.

* Simplification in second para.

* One more.

* copy edits to status page

* march 19 status update

* status update copy

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Co-authored-by: Laura Herring <[email protected]>

src/status.md

@@ -5,13 +5,46 @@ meta:
   name: FAC system status
   description: Track the operating status of the FAC, both for audit submission and search.
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+# FAC system status
 
-# March 18, 2024
+This page tracks the operating status of the FAC, both for audit submission and search.
 
-**Audit search is currently limited to UEI-only.** You can search your UEI to confirm your audit submission is complete. The PDF report will still be available for download but summary report workbooks won't.
+## March 19
 
-## Issue background
-In mid-February, GSA completed the migration of historical data from the Census Bureau. This increased the amount of data in the GSA system exponentially and slowed down search performance.
-Our team has released multiple patches to stabilize search performance since then but have been unable to do so consistently. For this reason, we've decided to reduce search to UEI-only while we focus on building new search tables instead of one-off bug fixes.
+We're aware that search performance, even reduced to UEI-only, continues to be slow. Our engineers are investigating the root cause of the issue and continue to work on a solution. 
 
-We're working as quickly and efficiently as possible to return full search functionality to our users as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience.
+We are also exploring options for using the API to generate a static list of submitted reports for use by audit resolution officials. We'll post more on this page if this becomes available.
+
+For specific questions or issues, please contact the FAC via [our helpdesk](https://support.fac.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new).
+
+## March 18, 2024
+
+**Audit search is currently limited to UEI-only.** You can search your UEI to confirm your audit submission is complete. The PDF report is still be available for download but summary report workbooks aren't.
+
+### Issue background
+
+In mid-February, GSA completed the migration of historical data from the Census Bureau. This increased the amount of data in the GSA system exponentially, hindering search performance. 
+
+Over the last month, our team has released multiple patches to stabilize search with limited success. Because of this, we've reduced search to UEI-only while we focus on building a more sustainable search function.
+
+We're working hard to return full search functionality as soon as we can. We know this is a significant disruption for many users. Thank you for your patience.
+
+**A timeline of the issues:**
+
+- February 7: We completed the data migration. This increased the number of audits from 10K to more than 250K, and the number of awards tracked from 100K to nearly 4.5M.
+
+- February 8: We [increased resources in our production environment](https://github.com/GSA-TTS/FAC/pull/3376) to address the increased load.
+
+- February 9: The team removed the [My ALN filter](https://github.com/GSA-TTS/FAC/pull/3378) in an attempt to stop system crashes caused by this feature.
+
+- February 14: We worked with more than a dozen NSACs to [prioritize search needs](https://github.com/GSA-TTS/FAC/issues/3388).
+
+- February 16: The team [increased search capacity in the production environment](https://github.com/GSA-TTS/FAC/pull/3424).
+
+- February 28: We [added prioritized search needs](https://github.com/GSA-TTS/FAC/pull/3440), re-introducing performance challenges.
+
+- March 11:  Heavy use of the system prevented system updates for nearly a week. The team completed [an after-hours update to the production environment](https://github.com/GSA-TTS/FAC/pull/3496), partially addressing new search performance issues.
+
+- March 14: Performance issues and system crashes persisted in search. The team released [new search tables and queries](https://github.com/GSA-TTS/FAC/pull/3511). These required significant engineering and testing work.
+
+- March 18: The team decided to take down search to focus on long-term solutions vs. short-term patches.