AD&S is moving forward with some concepts called Automated Testing and ContinuousIntegration. This means that instead of one rare and large deploy with lots of changes to a system, we are generally favoring frequent small changes. We are building lots of automated testing that happens every time to make a change to help us be confident that we aren’t introducing new instabilities when we make these changes, so this should improve the quality of our systems as well. We will also be announcing major functionality changes when they are ready to go.
One important factor is that we are discontinuing the regular 5pm Thursday maintenance window. That said, we may still need to schedule downtime, but we can do it at times where it makes sense. We will still be proactive in our communication and respect for staff & patrons’ use of our systems.
