[Engineering] Upcoming holidays/events and their impact on the deployment schedule

Mon Nov 6 19:50:35 UTC 2017

Reminder as we approach Thanksgiving in the US in a couple weeks:

<quote name="Greg Grossmeier" date="2017-09-27" time="16:12:07 -0700">
> Hello all,
> 
> It's that time of year again where the density of holidays increases and
> at the same time our plans for fundraising also increase.
> 
> Per our usual practice we will be not doing deployments at various
> points in the next few months. Here's the full outline:
> 
> Reminder for all on we did last year:
> * No MW train the week of Thanksgiving (but SWAT deploys were open for
>   high-priority things).
> * No deploys (at all) the last two weeks of December. People were happy
>   with this.
> * The first week of January was normal (minus Monday being Jan 2nd, our
>   observed New Year's Day holiday) deployment wise.
> * The second week was weird due to Dev Summit/All Hands: No MediaWiki
>   train, only SWATs as needed on Mon/Tues/Wed. No SWATs/deploys during
>   All Hands.
> 
> I imagine we'll do similarly. In that case (looking at the calendar....)
> 
> * No MW train the week of Thanksgiving (Nov 20th), SWATs open for high
>   priority things
> * No deploys weeks of Dec 18th and 25th (last two weeks)
> * Normal week week of Jan 1st (minus no deploys that Monday)
> * The Dev Summit and WMF All Hands is the week of January 22nd, so that
>   will be a "No Train but SWATs OK on Mon/Tues/Wed" week.
> * The following week (week of January 29th) the Release Engineering team
>   will be on an offsite, so a week of "No Train, but SWATs and service
>   deploys OK".
> 
> This is now on-wiki at:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming
> 
> Best,
> 
> Greg
> 
> -- 
> | Greg Grossmeier            GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
> | Release Team Manager            A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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| Greg Grossmeier            GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| Release Team Manager            A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
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