Sure. I'll take this on the list rather than as a private reply, as I
imagine it's a relevant reminder for everyone who translated Tech
News.

There's no automatic deploy window. I (or someone else, normally
User:Trizek or User:Quiddity if I'm unavailable for some reason) go
through this process:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Manual#Distribution – which
means it's not done exactly at the same time every week, but rather
when I (or whoever is distributing it) have time to sit down and take
care of it. As promised in the email I send out on Thursdays, I never
distribute Tech News before Monday afternoon UTC. I have a list of
deadlines here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors#The_deadlines

The Monday 15:00 UTC (Monday 14:00 UTC during daylight saving time)
deadline is when I solemnly promise all Tech News translators that
their translations will be included in the newsletter – Tech News is
never distributed to the wikis earlier than that. In reality, it will
usually be a few hours later, and occasionally closer to midnight UTC
if I have a very busy day and there's something I urgently need to
take care of (but I normally try to avoid that, for my own sake if
nothing else).

I tend to remove the deadline template the last thing I do before
distributing Tech News
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech/News/2016/48&diff=16108009&oldid=16103780).
If it's still there and you haven't seen the weekly thank you email on
this list, the newsletter shouldn't have been distributed yet.

I should probably incorporate at least the link to the deadlines in
the weekly announcement telling you there's a new issue ready for
translation. Thank you for asking this question.

//Johan Jönsson
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:31 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz
<psychoslave@culture-libre.org> wrote: