Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Important dates

Deployments stop when:


 * 🚆 Train stop when the majority of Release Engineering is AFK
 * 🛑 All deployments stop When the majority of technology staff is AFK

TODO: Other times? SRE offsites? Product offsites?

These things happen at predictable times each year:

January

 * 🛑 New Years (Full week unless NYD is on a Monday)
 * 🛑 All-Hands

March

 * 🚆 3rd -- data center switchover (no train, no deploys on Tuesday)

May

 * Wikimedia European Hackathon, Albania
 * 🚆 Engineering Productivity Offsite

June

 * 2nd week (generally -- check with Mark) SRE offsite

August

 * Wikimania 2020, Thailand

November

 * 🚆 Engineering Productivity Offsite
 * 🚆 Thanksgiving (US Holiday)

December

 * 🛑 Holiday Season + New Years (Last two weeks of December)