Bug#1030668: dinstall could run more often (every hour?)

[Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Dear FTP masters,

could dinstall be run more frequently, for example every hour?

Currently dinstall is run only once every 6 hours. This means that many 
operations are blocked for a long time. For instance uploading a -2 
version after a package has cleared the NEW queue.

Such long delays tend to ruin the development flow, especially of 
volunteers that happen to have just a couple of hours at their disposal. 
This is a well known source of frustration [1].

[1] 
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-winding-down/#old-infrastructure-package-uploads

Given that a dinstall run generally takes only few minutes, it should be 
feasible to run dinstall at least hourly.

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci