<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">In the next couple weeks, most of the people who do the day to day maintenance of the continuous integration bots and infrastructure will be on vacation in observance of the various (US) winter holidays. In order to keep the builds stable while the maintainers are out on break, we will be observing the following schedule for availability and maintenance of the Swift Open Source infrastructure and associated repositories:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- We will be <b class="">locking the swift-4.1-branch</b> from <b class="">midnight 12/21 to midnight 1/1</b> (Pacific). <b class="">Pull requests can still be worked on and tested</b>, however you will not be able to merge them during this time.</div><div class="">- <b class="">We will not lock master, but we will require “full" PR testing from 12/21 to 1/1</b> in order to merge changes<br class="">- If there are issues preventing people from using PR testing on 12/21, we will aggressively revert changes to get to a good state, in order to make sure that PR testing is working<br class="">- Response for infrastructure issues and bot triage from 12/21 to 1/1 will be "best effort”. If you see an important issue, please report it to <a href="mailto:swift-infrastructure@swift.org" class="">swift-infrastructure@swift.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Happy Holidays!</div><div class="">Nicole</div></div></div></body></html>