Freeze next week?

[Colin Watson]

Thanks for bearing with us while we conducted this experiment.  I've
ended it early since we gathered the required information, namely that
we are not quite ready to remove the old queue script.

We learned/remembered a few things.  On the good side:

 * There is no problem with archive admins who aren't core-devs
   (currently only Kate) accepting packages in main, so upload and queue
   admin permissions are correctly separate.

 * People generally seem to like the new client's interface.

 * We were able to accept all uploads eventually, and only one out of
   100 or so caused any problems.

However:

 * Packages-arch-specific processing does not work when accepting
   packages from the queue via either the web UI or the API, only when
   using the queue script.  Fixing this requires modelling
   Packages-arch-specific in the database so that appservers have a copy
   of it.  This isn't a blocker, since we've put up with it in the past
   when using the web UI, but it would be nice to sort out.

     https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/564759
     https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/734782

 * One upload (checkbox) hit a timeout on the first attempt, although it
   later succeeded (presumably due to a now-hot cache).  It was
   attempting to close eight bugs, and ran into:

     https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/745799

   There are various possible strategies for fixing this, from direct
   optimisation to moving various things into asynchronous jobs.  This
   is a blocker, so we'll explore this.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]