I think we need some shorter version to refer to this window. New name is
cool, but swat is shorter.

Martin

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 5:17 PM Max Binder <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was literally just thinking of this! Glad to hear it, for exactly the
> reasons you said. Go team. :)
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 9:57 AM Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Until today if you wanted to get a backport or config change deployed to
>> production you used what was termed the "SWAT" window.
>>
>> As of today that window of time is now called the "Backport and Config"
>> window. This solves a few problems. First, the overly militarized and
>> violence-implying name is no longer something we want in our community.
>> Second, this now accurately and clearly describes what the purpose of the
>> window is.
>>
>> This should now be changed everywhere including the Deployment
>> Calendar[0], but if you see any errant mentions of it in documentation,
>> please feel free to update it (WP:BOLD) or contact the Wikimedia Release
>> Engineering Team.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> [0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
>>
>>
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>>
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