[dpatti]

The primary benefit is that it creates a single point of communication for the developers, the designers, and the QA. It also helps with prioritizing changes that could be conflicting and, in the same vein, helps prevent bad releases or merges. And, of course, anyone can do this job. If I'm not available, someone picks up the slack. I just volunteered because I was interested and available.

All that said, I think that letting every developer deploy would not be a bad idea at all. The problem is that our team is too big to do that without creating more robust deployment tools and too small to dedicate enough time to doing so. My hope is that one day we can get there, though.

[girvo]

You should definitely work on the Kinect-to-deploy integration, then everyone would want to learn how to do it ;)