From 4679ed4b06c79f27d613f6cafea68f430b3fbbf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Eastwood Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:45:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Silencing alerts is no longer necessary during a deploy (release script instructions) (#19968) As discussed in [`#element-backend-internal:matrix.org`](https://matrix.to/#/!SGNQGPGUwtcPBUotTL:matrix.org/$29ZzRe7gg62UZmT0bgeseMs320Kb-Ub6DyaQE20-3ng?via=jki.re&via=element.io&via=matrix.org) Our assumptions on why this was done previously: in the olden days you'd get paged doing the redeploy even if everything was actually fine (probably before we started doing rolling restarts?) --- changelog.d/19968.misc | 1 + scripts-dev/release.py | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 changelog.d/19968.misc diff --git a/changelog.d/19968.misc b/changelog.d/19968.misc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1526938614 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/19968.misc @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Remove alert silencing deploy step from release script instructions as it's no longer necessary. diff --git a/scripts-dev/release.py b/scripts-dev/release.py index ea4fb0f142..68e0b3c772 100755 --- a/scripts-dev/release.py +++ b/scripts-dev/release.py @@ -806,7 +806,6 @@ def full(gh_token: str) -> None: _prepare() click.echo("Deploy to matrix.org and ensure that it hasn't fallen over.") - click.echo("Remember to silence the alerts to prevent alert spam.") click.confirm("Deployed?", abort=True) click.echo("\n*** tag ***")