[Wikitech-l] End of year deployment freeze 2023 🥶

Hi all! This year we're planning to *freeze backport and train deployments Fri, Dec 22nd to Mon, Jan 1st.* November holidays, a Developer Experience Offsite, and the normal December freeze means there are only *4 more deployment trains this year for MediaWiki*: - 13 Nov - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.5 (this week) - 20 Nov - No Train (Thanksgiving on Thu 23 Nov) - 27 Nov - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.7 - 03 Dec - No Train (Developer Experience offsite) - 11 Dec - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.9 - 18 Dec - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.10 - 25 Dec - No Train (Deployment Freeze) - 01 Jan - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.12 All this information is on the yearly deployment calendar[0]. We freeze deployments every year for the end-of-December holidays and the busy fundraising season[1][2][3][4][5]. Thanks! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> [1]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2018/12> [2]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2019/12> [3]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2020/12> [4]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2021/12> [5]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2022/12>