Package branch freshness

[Martin Pool]

On 20 July 2011 10:12, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> > It would be good to get that rmadison into lptools or ubuntu-dev-tools
> > - even a moderately hacky state would be useful.
> >
> > In general any feature that might conceivably have bad consequences or
> > not be what people want probably ought to be behind a configuration
> > option, and I think this is in that class.
> >
> > Please file a bug against lp saying this api call is slow enough to be
> > a problem.
>
> FWIW:
>  - If its responding within 1 second consistently its within our
> current performance goal
>  - if its (ever) slower than 9 seconds it will timeout and fixing it
> to be <9 will be a critical bug
>  - if you want it faster outside these parameters, the best thing to
> do is to use the stakeholders escalation process, or submit patches.

Right.  It is obviously not timing out.  If we have a bug, we can
decide whether it's slow enough to be a problem, and potentially send
a patch, or on the other hand decide that it's not a priority.

Filing bugs that never get fixed is a kind of waste, but if people are
repeatedly talking about an issue I think it's better to get a bug
number and a specific decision than to have it just nebulous.

> > I doubt API calls are being cached (even anonymously) but perhaps they are.
>
> Nothing with an auth header gets cached.

Right, but lp_api_lite doesn't send auth headers.

(Possibly we need to revisit that in the case we ever have private
derived distros.)

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