Freeze break request: move staging improvements to production for askbot

[Toshio Kuratomi]

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 at 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
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