Freeze break request: move staging improvements to production for askbot

[Kevin Fenzi]

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. 

kevin


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