tl;dr: Starting the week of August 22nd there will be 3 SWAT deploy windows: at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC (6am, 11am, 4pm PDT). Hello all, I'm pleased to announce that after being heavily SF-focused for a long time we're adding a Europe-focused (and slightly better for Asia/India) SWAT window[0] starting on August 22nd[1]. This new SWAT window follows a couple changes to the SWAT process[2] and scap tooling[3] which make SWAT deploys less risky and stressful for all involved. We hope this additional window will make the lives of all teams and volunteers (at least slightly) better. <3, Greg and the Release Engineering Team [0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_August_22nd [2] Utilizing mw1099/X-Wikimedia-Debug headers, see: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys#Doing_the_deploy [3] Canary error rate checks built-in, see: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-August/086255.html -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |