R5 Deployment

Post by **Tigereye** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:25 pm

Hey guys,

As you know R5 has been 'blessed' by dogbones and Cort is in the final steps of getting it ready to roll out.
There are a lot of changes ahead of us, so we have a pretty narrow window to get this pushed out the door.

Cort and I are trying to get everything ready for a Monday November 16th deployment. There are a lot of things we need to do in the background to make sure we're ready for that day, so we may need to push that back if we're not ready.

However, with the incoming server changes that are planned for early December, we may need to postpone R5's release until after that dust has settled (meaning late December). We don't want to change both at the same time because any problems we encounter will be more difficult to solve since we wouldn't know if the problem is a result of R5 or the new servers.

If you are a gameserver operator, we ask that you please watch the gameserver op forum for information on how you can help on rollout day.
Helpline folk, if you are able to make yourselves available to ease the transition on rollout day it will be appreciated.
Everyone else, expect the rollout to come this Monday, but don't hate us if it doesn't happen! We're not ready yet and will do our best to be ready by Monday.

Thanks to everyone who works to keep this machine running - developers, helpliners, commanders, and players.
Special thanks go out to the biggest contributors for R5's code: Imago and KGJV.

--TE

Broodwich · Post by **Broodwich** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:32 pm

woot! finally i will be able to see through build spheres and tf ab cannons

badpazzword · Post by **badpazzword** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:41 pm

Best of luck!

Bathawk · Post by **Bathawk** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:14 pm

'4

Deathrender · Post by **Deathrender** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:15 pm

_SRM_Nuke · Post by **_SRM_Nuke** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:20 pm

Great news. Thanks Kage, Imago, TE, DB, Cort, all the rest involved.

HSharp · Post by **HSharp** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:47 pm

Nuke we need you to keep the terrorists at bay, they will want to strike while we are weakest.

TeeJ · Post by **TeeJ** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:07 pm

Those that didn't graduate from the Academy with Nuke

neotoxin · Post by **neotoxin** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:57 am

Now is this the ACTUAL December or the TwoWeeks/SF December?

Deathrender · Post by **Deathrender** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:02 am

TeeJ wrote:QUOTE (TeeJ @ Nov 12 2009, 07:07 PM) Those that didn't graduate from the Academy with Nuke