[Savannah-cvs] [627] document delays in aliases and repo creation

[ineiev]

Revision: 627
          
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=627
Author:   ineiev
Date:     2023-05-24 10:11:02 -0400 (Wed, 24 May 2023)
Log Message:
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document delays in aliases and repo creation

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/SavannahUpdateDelays.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/SavannahUpdateDelays.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/SavannahUpdateDelays.mdwn       2023-05-23 04:47:10 UTC (rev 
626)
+++ trunk/sviki/SavannahUpdateDelays.mdwn       2023-05-24 14:11:02 UTC (rev 
627)
@@ -8,19 +8,25 @@
 *every 30 minutes*, so changes made on the web site will appear
 to be live, but will not take effect until the next cron update.
 
-ViewCVS never recomputes the \~4000 group list (it would consume too
-much resources and time to do it at each request) - but Apache2 (hence
-ViewCVS) is restarted daily by sysklogd. So new repositories are taken
-into account by ViewCVS only every 24h.
+In particular,
 
-These are some things that do work faster:
+- New repositories are created twice an hour (when the VCS
+  is enabled on the 'Select features' page.)
 
+- ViewCVS never recomputes the \~4000 group list (it would consume too
+  much resources and time to do it at each request) - but Apache2 (hence
+  ViewCVS) is restarted daily by sysklogd. So new repositories are taken
+  into account by ViewCVS only every 24h.
+
+These things do work faster:
+
 - Group and account-related public info, member access control,
   email addresses, notification settings, GnuPG and SSH keys
   are in effect with no delay.
 - Group home pages update within a few minutes.
-- Mailing list-related requests are processed on lists.gnu.org
-  immediately.
+- Mailing list-related requests (creation, password reset, configuration)
+  are processed on lists.gnu.org immediately.
+- Updated emails arrive in VCS servers every 10 minutes.
 
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