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Re:Slack is down by ikiris on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:36PM (#25634880)
Most releases are automated with time lockouts.
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Re:Slack is down by cratermoon on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:01PM (#25635293)
In what companies?
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Re:Slack is down by ikiris on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:09PM (#25637159)
Competent ones like those you'd hear about being down on HN.

At least that how it worked at one FAANG

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Re:Slack is down by londons_explore on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:40AM (#25643800)
It varies a lot by team... I think it's common to have a single click "start" button to press. It's a good sanity check that a release isn't going to happen during a fire drill, outage, or strike...
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