I just got out of a conversation where surprise was expressed that I didn't know, and prepare, for an upcoming release that was obviously coming. Well the answ

I just got out of a conversation where surprise was expressed that I didn't know, and prepare, for an upcoming release that was obviously coming. Well the answer is that no one told me that they were even thinking about releasing. The last I heard we were waiting on the vendor. Apparently I should have known it was coming and had prepared production servers for it so the roughly week and a half given magically became enough. What's worse is that technically speaking it can be easily done in that time, it's a people problem. They could technically put pressure where it needs to be, but will they? All signs point to no. --- So while I understand putting responsibility for communication onto the developer, there's a responsibility for the others as well and at some point it's just flat not the developers problem.