I just wanted to touch on something and make it clear.

When doing a release train, it is the conductors job that week to cut a branch off develop at 3PM Thursday, get said branch onto a QA server for management and then, unless concerns are raised from management, deploy to production and have developers who contributed to the release smoke test their work on Monday evening.

NO ONE is the gatekeeper to whether or not you as a developer are allowed to merge into develop. For some reason I still get questions on if it is good to merge into develop. If I am ever asked about being able to merge into develop, my response is usually something that checks all the boxes that we as a team(s) have agreed upon. They are as follows:

- Your branch passes semaphore
- Your branch has gone through PR and gotten 2 dev and 2 design (if a visual change) approvals
- You have presented your branch to a manager who is able to verify that it works as intended 

With these three items accomplished it frees the conductor to do the above without having to chase developers around and ask if they have their stuff in on time (something we agreed in retro was a hassle and time consuming). 

If there is ever an issue with one of the three things above being unaccomplish-able before the cut of the release is made a conversation in a public forum (SoftwareReviewsDev most likely) should take place. This can be a spot where people who have contributed to develop leading up to the cut of the release or any other interested parties can come and weigh in on what should happen. IF for some reason the developer with the concern does not start this then the current conductor should start it if they are also aware of the issue (eg. semaphore not passing)

I want to apologize for not starting this thread as the conductor for this weeks issue of Sema not passing but now that we have the above we should be ahead of this for all future releases.

If anything above is new/suprising/concerning to you feel free to touch base with me and I will be more than happy to make time to clarify further and update this post.

Greg




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