PlusReed LLC is constantly developing new stuff in the background, but we have rules on how we deploy in order to keep a cadence.

Emergency Releases

Emergency releases can happen in a few scenarios:

• The release is experiencing elevated error rates
• The release has user experience defects
• The release is extremely slow

These don’t happen often as our main way of handling these issues is to rollback to the previous version, and refine on the buggy version until we get it to a point where it is stable. However, if we are confident that we can pinpoint the issue in a short amount of time to prevent downtime, we will do an emergency release. This can happen at any time.

Emergency release versions will look like this: vX.X.X_rX

Regular Releases

Our regular release schedule is from Monday to Thursday, 8 AM to 6 PM. We typically have these in a few segments:

• Morning Release (8 AM - 11 AM)
• Mid-day Release (12 PM - 3 PM)
• EOD Release (3 PM - 6 PM)

Regular releases will not happen outside of these blocks of time. We do not do releases on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Regular release versions follow the normal versioning number format: vX.X.X.

While we aim to do one regular release per week, there is always a chance we will do multiple releases in a day on a single product. We do not strictly enforce the “one regular release per week” rule.