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Once your suite at option 2 is declared running in time-critical mode, we recommend you not to touch this suite any longer for new developments. We recommend that you define a similar suite in parallel to the time-critical one and that you first do the testing of changes under this suite. When you make important changes to your suite, we recommend that you inform your relevant User Support contact point and the ECMWF operators (newops@newops at ecmwf .dot int). At ECMWF, we will set up the appropriate information channels to keep you aware of changes that may affect your time-critical activity. The most appropriate tool is a mailing list.
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