Re: calm now runs on-demand

[Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 01/07/2017 12:31, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > On Apr 17 12:34, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > I recently deployed an update to calm which should causes it to run
> > > on-demand after a maintainer SFTP upload.
> > >
> > > Hopefully this reduces the inconvenience of having to wait till the next
> > > scheduled run, after an upload is made which fails due to some easily
> > > correctable problem.
> > >
> > > calm continues to also run on a schedule at :10 and :40 past the hour, so it
> > > will still note changes which have been made directly on sourceware.
> > >
> > > If you have shell access on sourceware, and make such changes, you can force
> > > calm to run with '~cygwin-admin/bin/calm scan-(uploads|relarea)'.
> > >
> > > Given that, it probably makes sense to consider reducing the frequency of
> > > scheduled runs.
>
> I have upload access, but AFAIK not shell access. I think most maintainers
> don't, unless that's changed.

Correct.  But unless you have shell access to make changes by directly 
moving files around on sourceware, you don't need shell access to run calm.

Currently, calm runs (i) if a !ready file exists in your upload area 
when your sftp session closes, and (ii) at 00:10 UTC and every 4 hours 
thereafter.