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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 20 July 2011 14:15:34 curtis Hovey wrote:
> You may have noticed that releases are most often done by our beloved
> antipodeans. While the work to request a deployment is trivial, the QA
> is not. Engineers may sacrifice a considerable amount of time checking
> that QA Staging is deployable. They had this time when most of them were
> working on maintenance, but all of them are now on feature work.
> 
> I am sure we all appreciate the work done by William, Steven, Ian, and
> Robert. Well done. I suspect that no-downtime-deploys would stop if
> these gentlemen took a one week holiday, or another large meteor strikes
> Au. I think it is time that others arrange for a  no-downtime-deploy.

Heartily agree.

Apart from said Antipodeans getting all the strife, it's actually a problem 
for everyone else losing out on a valuable experience.

Anyhow, I thought we'd already said that only maintenance squads would deal 
with NDT rollouts?