buy-something team mailing list archive

[Michael Nelson <michael.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Anthony Lenton
<anthony.lenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We're currently delayed with the server deployments, so here's a brief
> update so that we all know where we stand:

Thanks for the round-up Anthony,

>  * An issue was discovered related to the PPAs htaccess files being
> updated once every five minutes, more info on bug #627608.  Noodles is
> currently working on bringing this time down as much as possible for the
> release,

I've landed an intermediate fix to Launchpad which will be released
this week and should allow us to run the cron every minute (ie.
average wait of 30seconds for the client). It is scheduled to be
released this Thursday with Launchpad 10.09.

> mvo has added a workaround to keep polling in the desktop app
> until the ppa is available.

[snip]

>  * One more bit of uncertainty that hasn't proven to be working yet is
> the creation of Launchpad accounts on demand.  That small bit of code is
> quite untestable until we go public, as you can't be member of the
> restricted set of teams unless you already have a Launchpad account to
> start off with.  Perhaps it's not likely many people without Launchpad
> accounts will try purchasing during beta, but we should be sure to check
> this part as soon as we go public.

We should be able to QA this on staging without a problem? See comment #2 at:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/software-center-agent/+bug/611246

for the details.

-Michael