Help:Citation Style 1/Deployment

The CS1/CS2 citation modules function a little differently given their immense use across the wiki.

Deployment schedule
Approximately once per quarter. Sometimes delayed by unfinished RFCs.

No exceptions for small changes.

1 week before deployment

 * Advertise changes at the following locations:
 * Help talk:CS1
 * Proposed
 * WT:AWB
 * WT:Citing sources
 * User talk:Citation bot
 * WT:Refill
 * Others???
 * Anything else?

Day of
Deploy.

Within a week of deployment
Fix critical errors. Critical errors are defined as Lua errors or where a piece of data should display but does not.

Otherwise
Accumulate changes in the sandboxes according to discussion on Help talk:CS1. Attempt to have only consensus changes in the sandboxes at any specific time.

Changes are tested for basic function as they are made to the sandboxes.