Add caution for public comms during Incidents
Why is this change being made?
When reviewing April's Availability report, Reliability Leadership noted that there were a lot of public communications (in the form of status.io updates and Tweets) that went out, despite those incidents having minimal customer impact. This has the effect of a public perception of Reliability problems when in reality there was little to no impact to customer workflows.
This MR adds some initial guidelines for IM and CMOC to confirm customer impact with the EOC before sending out public communications.
Once this MR is approved, we need to communicate it out in the #imoc_general channel to ensure current and onboarding IMS are aware. We will also want to engage with Support to update and socialize out this understanding in their documentation as well.
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