Proposal: earlier tarball deadlines

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

Hi,

I'd like to propose moving tarball deadlines for the 3.36 cycle one 
business day earlier, from Mondays to Fridays, while leaving the 
overall release deadline on Wednesday. That way, we can have the 
weekend for trying to build the release. This will allow release team 
more time to resolve build failures, hopefully making the job less 
stressful for us. It should also help us avoid late releases. Currently 
we're not able to begin building the release before Monday night 
(American timezones) or Tuesday morning (European timezones), which has 
led to several late releases on Thursday, Friday, and occasionally even 
later. Managing a release is usually a full-day task at least, and 
doing this on business days is very difficult for some of us. There's 
some more motivation for this discussed at [1].

An alternative proposal would be to use Saturday instead of Friday as 
the tarball deadline, which might be nicer for maintainers who prefer 
to release over the weekend. That would still allow release team to 
build the release on Sunday.

Please, if you have any concerns, let us know. Also let us know if you 
have a preference between Friday and Saturday. Remember that the 
deadline still occurs at 23:59 UTC on the day specified.

Michael

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/issues/131