> There's also an argument that she used some sort of "emergency" deployment mechanism, but that doesn't really hold water either. Honestly it's not that unusual to see people deploy some package when they need it rather than wait for a scheduled job to deploy it.
I disagree. The emergency process was highly unusual, in that it had never been done before for this extension, and was very rarely done in general. Triggering a deploy is normal, triggering a deploy that goes immediately to 100% is not.
> essentially it was her job to work on and deploy this extension
The extension wasn't something she had previously worked on.
> I believe that had the message been an April fools day joke she wouldn't have been fired.
I agree, and don't think she should have been fired for this either.
(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)