> Additionally, the deployments were done in the middle of work days (as has been mentioned elsewhere), at highly inconvenient times (just before Christmas!) I

> Additionally, the deployments were done in the middle of work days (as has been mentioned elsewhere), at highly inconvenient times (just before Christmas!) It's always the middle of a work day in some part of the world. It's always going to be inconvenient for someone. Do these updates really cause significant outages or just slower response times due to invalidated caches or whatever? The dogfooding-preleases-on-Gitlab.com idea in general seems perfectly reasonable to me. They're the ones best equipped to deal with any resulting issues so catching them before the majority of on-premise users is going to hit them seems like a very good idea. If they wouldn't do it, do you think the possible issues would magically disappear until GA? How?