calm now runs on-demand

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Sat Jul 1 11:31:00 GMT 2017


> 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.



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