On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:42:06AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Fri, 24 May 2013 00:27:08 +1000
Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've tested a couple of things on the askbot staging instance that I
> think could really improve the performance of askfedora:
>
> 1. Use python-django-post_office as email back end[1]:
> We run a cron job to send out mails periodically using post-office
> asynchronously. This reduces the delay in comment posting and
> operations quite a bit.
>
> 2. Send periodic reminders to request people to accept the best answer
> for questions they've asked.[2]
> This should hopefully reduce the number of "unanswered" questions on
> the forum, specially questions that have been answered but no answer
> accepted.
>
> The changes are minor ones and could wait for the freeze to finish,
> but I expect them to improve usability quite a bit. What do you folks
> think?
>
> [1]
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3763
> [2]
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3762
>
> Apart from the puppet changes below, the ask production database will
> have to be updated to include python-post-office as explained
> here[3].
>
> [3]
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-post_office
I'm ok with this given it's all working in stg.
+1 here.
Given that askbot isn't critical to getting a release out the only part that
worries me is the database update.
if it's tested in stg, sounds okay to me, though.
-Toshio