Proposal to change the International Monthly release dates to the 1st of the month

Hi everyone

We have had multiple instances recently of concepts being promoted to the International Edition before they were officially Published. This has then had the effect of introducing duplicates into the Extensions, as the concepts have been Published on the same date - for example on 31st of the next month, when both the local concept was Published in the Extension + the promoted concept was Published simultaneously in the International Edition, both with the same effectiveDate.

There is no way to extend the RVF validation to cover this scenario, as the two Releases are completely distinct, due to the relevant Extension releases being dependent on International Edition packages from far before the invalid promotion occurred.

We are, therefore, introducing manual validation at the point of Promotion, to try and catch any such invalid CRS requests at source, before they are promoted.

However, as this is a manual process it still has vulnerabilities, and so we are planning to move the International Edition releases to the 1st of each month, instead of the last day of each month.  This would prevent the vast majority of clashes with Extensions that are normally published on the last day of the month as well - the only remaining risk would be the USA which is published on 1st March and September each year.

We cannot predict any risks or potential downsides to moving to the 1st of the month, and so we will be moving ahead with this once we have sent out communications and given the community a reasonable notice period to prepare for the change.  Therefore, please let us know immediately if you can foresee any potential issues with this proposal, or have any valid business reasons why this change will have a negative impact?

Thanks very much,
Andrew