Hi,

So it's the most wonderful time of the year and everything... This means that we're actually coming pretty close to the holidays!

TL;DR: everything will be fine, but if you need something from us before the holidays, ask now!

TPA is, as usual, going to ensure some minimal rotation during the TPI holidays (December 21st to January 5th, inclusively), so we should be able to deal with emergencies. We'll have someone checking alerts and mail on a daily basis, basically. "How to report issues" doesn't change, see:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/support

If you're curious, you can see who's on rotation in the "TPA rotations" calendar I have just shared with TPI (an oversight).

That said.

If you think you might need something urgently before the holidays, it's getting *really* late to tell us now, as we're pretty much trying to wrap up everything to quiet down our infra before the holidays.

So if you need anything from TPA, the time to ask for this is pretty much right now, we'll be glad to consider your request! And as the ~3 weeks pass before the holidays, we'll be less and less happy to deal with urgent "oh I just need this blog post" or "can I get a little VM cluster setup now?" right before the holidays. :)

(If you need a coordinated release right before the holidays, that's fine too, but let's plan it no!)

Thank you for your attention, and happy holidays!

a.