Niels Thykier: > 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 hours out of date).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. > > [...] > > Thanks, > ~Niels > > [...] Turns out that the Britney2 side of things were more trivial than anticipated. I intend apply attached patches during the weekend and set this up (1 for britney1, 2 for britney2 and 1 for our crontab). With the attached patches, the migrationless runs will only write to stdout. With second line in the crontab piping output to a separate log file, we should all be set. :) Thanks, ~Niels
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