1443911 - Change the Normandy update timer from 24 hours to 6 hours

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Normandy Client, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

Currently Normandy checks for new recipes once every 24 hours. We'd like to change this to once every 6 hours. This will give us faster enrollment and unenrollment from studies.

Why 6 hours? It's mostly arbitrary. My reasoning is that power-of-two steps are nice, and that 6 hours starts to put Normandy into the "answers in one working day" range.

In the future I'd like to increase this further, possibly as far as once an hour. After that, if we still want faster updates, we'd want to explore a push model, or some other execution pattern.

Comment 1

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

Attachment: Bug 1443911 - Change the Normandy update timer to 6 hours

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/240128/diff/#index_header
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Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Comment on attachment 8971376 [details]
Bug 1443911 - Change the Normandy update timer to 6 hours

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/240128/#review246108

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/168a83845500
Change the Normandy update timer to 6 hours r=Gijs

Comment 4

[Andreea Pavel [:apavel]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/168a83845500