Re: Running Britney more often than 2/day
On 05/04/17 11:57, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have found myself wanting Britney run more often than 2/day. My
> primary interest is getting the excuses updated more often, so they
> reflect the current status of a package (rather than being up to 12
> hours out of date).
> It would hopefully also mean that we would see fewer unblock requests
> for things we have already unblocked (by looking at the fixed RC bugs).
>
> I propose two solutions:
>
> * Short term, do 4 runs a day (1/dinstall)
>
> * Long term, support "excuses-only" runs and do a run 1/hour.
> - Only 2-4 of them would actually do the migrations (among other
> because we need a dinstall to "commit" the changes anyway).
>
> The short term solution is trivial to implement:
>
> * Change Britney's "start of day" from 3 pm to 7pm a la [1] (so aging
> still occurs for the 22:00 UTC run).
>
> * Update our cronjob to run britney 4 times
>
> The long term solution should be doable (we got some partial patches in
> the BTS for it). However, I presume we want a separate log for
> "non-migrating" run (so we can still trivially find the migration
> attempts). This may require a bit of fiddling to figure out a good
> solution for that, which is why I would prefer delaying this a bit.
>
> Assuming no objections, I intend to implement the short term solution by
> the end of this week and look into doing the long term solution when
> time permits.
Sounds good to me. Thanks!
Emilio
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