[Engineering] Additional European-appropriate MediaWiki train window starting week of July 9th (also SWAT change)

[Greg Grossmeier]

Reminder that this is starting this week (tomorrow).

<quote name="Greg Grossmeier" date="2018-07-02" time="11:21:53 -0700">
> Hello,
> 
> The Release Engineering team will be expanding the set of people
> responsible for the weekly MediaWiki train deployments[0] to include
> people working normal European hours. Unfortunately, the current MW
> train deployment window is too late in the day for them.
> 
> To address this we are adding a European-focused timeslot for the MW
> train (and moving the current "EU SWAT window" 2 hours earlier to
> accommodate).
> 
> The first planned use of the new window will be next week, the week of
> July 9th.
> 
> For the avoidance of doubt: the normal MW train windows will not go
> away, these EU-timezone ones are in addition to them and only used
> during weeks that the train is conducted by someone in Europe. But, the
> EU SWAT window will indeed be permanently moved for simplicity (IOW: not
> dependent upon who's doing the train).
> 
> == European train window and changes ==
> This would affect Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
> 
> * 1300-1400 CEST (1100-1200 UTC) - EU SWAT window (2 hours earlier)
> * 1400-1500 CEST (1200-1300 UTC) - Break
> * 1500-1700 CEST (1300-1500 UTC) - EU Train window
> * 1700-1800 CEST (1500-1600 UTC) - Break
> * 1800-1900 CEST (1600-1700 UTC) - PuppetSWAT (Tue/Thu only, no change)
> 
> 
> Also, at the same time we'll be moving the Wednesday morning (SF time)
> SWAT window on hour earlier to 9am Pacific. This is to alleviate a
> contention with the weekly Scrum of Scrums meeting.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Greg
> 
> [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap
> 
> -- 
> | 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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