So, Release Engineering, your challenge is clear: you have 15 months to get our release automation so slick that doing a release on New Years Day 2013 fits in fine with the whole team’s party plans.
(Or, of course, you could just hire a Chinese guy.)
Our automation can handle it.
Perhaps for Firefox 18 release drivers will decide to move it either ahead or a little after. A schedule should not impose that we have a higher risk for our users for the lack of eyes watching for top beta crashers or input during that season of the year.