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Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday
- Summary - Background - Proposal - Reasons - Counter arguments Summary Normally when developers/SWEs/SRE/IT are oncall for a project, the oncall is from Monday of one week to Monday of the following week. This is sub-optimal.
Library dependencies need to be upgraded, servers need rebooted/patched Once a week tasks exist that’s not worth automating Config changes High priority requests By making the oncall switch be on Tuesday instead of a Monday only one person has there 3 day weekend interrupted instead of two. When there are multiple oncall rotations and they change on different days, it can be confusing during cross team launches or major issues.
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