Publisher now running every 30 minutes

[Kate Stewart]

On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 17:32 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Following some intensive optimisation work, the Ubuntu archive publisher
> is now back [1] to running every 30 minutes, rather than on its previous
> hourly cycle.  I hope this will help developers iterate fixes more
> quickly, particularly when long dependency chains are involved.  We may
> miss the odd run as we iron out the occasional problem with this setup,
> but things are looking good so far; the last five runs have had more
> than five minutes of clearance each.
> 
> [1] Long-timers may remember that before we switched the archive to
>     Launchpad we were using dak on a 30-minute cycle; although the main
>     thing optimised recently was actually something that would have
>     affected dak too if we'd carried on running it for long enough with
>     our setup.  See
>     http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/ubuntu/2011-10-24-quality-in-12-04.html.
> 

Thanks for this Colin!  Great work!  :D

Release team members too will certainly appreciate this as well, when
waiting to respin those images during the milestones.

Kate