New Patch Routine

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Today Steve George announced that they will be changing their publish cycle so that patches will hit the test server first on Thursdays and then to live the following Tuesday.

Steve George (Producer) wrote:
After this week’s publish, we'll be making a slight adjustment to our publish cycle.
In short...

Test Server: Thursday
Live publish: (Following) Tuesday

Thursday will now be the target date to release a build to the Test Server environment.
Then...the following Tuesday will be the target date for the transition from Test Server to all live servers.

Why did we do this?
Mainly, we want to make sure the weekends have zero disruptions for everyone.
New releases frequently uncover gating issues(as you all know). Having all dev hands on deck after a Tuesday update is much more productive than trying to rally everyone on the weekend to fix things :) Plus, it makes for much happier devs! "Sorry dude, I know you're getting married RIGHT NOW, but could you stop in and fix the recurve bow?"

How will this affect you?
Next week will be the adjustment week. There will only be a test server publish on Thursday. No live publish for the week.

Ya’ll cool with that?

Shock

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