Comment 17 for bug 380504

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:41:26PM -0000, Leonard Richardson wrote:
> Since we have an HTML notification when Launchpad is about to go down,
> we should be able to publish the same information through the web
> service. However, if Launchpad is actually down, the part of the web
> service that tells you whether Launchpad is down will itself be down.
>
> How transient are these transient exceptions? I'm open to the idea of
> having launchpadlib deal with 5xx errors by retrying a configurable
> number of times using exponential backoff.

I generally get them one or two times a day on scripts that are run
hourly, so say less than 5% of the time.

> Gary also wanted to ask me why you are using edge (which has much more
> planned downtime) for what appears to be production work, but I don't
> see anywhere you explicitly state that you're using edge. Are you?

No, last time I reported, it was suggested to production instead of
edge, so I updated all my scripts accordingly. But I still see the
issue at about the same level of frequency so I decided I should follow
up.

Bryce