PPA publishing is slow

[Andreas Hasenack]

When uploading a source package to a PPA, the build usually happens very quickly, but the publishing is very slow, taking 1h or more most of the time.

[Jürgen Gmach (jugmac00)]

Hi Andreas,

Did this happen only once or is this a permanent issue?

I am only back from PTO today. Has the publishing been successfully? How long did it take?

If the problem is persistent, I am more than happy to investigate, but sometimes there is just a lot of packages which needs to be published.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

It's persistent, and I heard in conversations that the problem is that there is only one "runner/publisher" for all of launchpad ppas.

[Jürgen Gmach (jugmac00)]

Ok, thanks for clarifying. We are aware of that limitation. That said we are currently not working on that issue.

Thanks for creating this ticket so we can collect some more feedback.

For our reference, could you give me some numbers how long it used to take and how long it takes now?

Thank you.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

It used to be that if I hit the timing right, I could get a package published in a few minutes. In my mind, that timing was "I was lucky to upload right before the cron job ran". But in general, I'd say it took less than 30min. Now it's always over 1h.

[Ravi Kant Sharma (ravi-sharma)]

Thanks for raising this, I experience more than 1hr on a regular basis.