[tor-bugs] #4222 [Company]: Make cron job to update RecommendedTBBVersions on check.tp.o

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#4222: Make cron job to update RecommendedTBBVersions on check.tp.o
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    Reporter:  mikeperry  |       Owner:  phobos  
        Type:  task       |      Status:  reopened
    Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:          
   Component:  Company    |     Version:          
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Changes (by mikeperry):

 * cc: Sebastian, aagbsn (added)


Comment:

 Can I Erinn and/or Sebastian and/or I just get svn + access to the check
 VM? This ticket is a Litany of Fail, and I think is it is because we have
 no maintainer of the current service or the source.

 Other than deployment on the actual VM here, everything else about the
 #2285+#3337 deployment was tested beforehand on alternate servers over two
 TBB releases and it worked properly, yet we still managed to have almost
 20 hours of failtime on this feature due to no one being around with the
 ability to fix it after it was partially deployed.

 Also, we really need a cron job to wget the file and mv it into place.

 And if we end up still seeing transient failures even after we get a sane
 deployment on the VM,
 we can give new TBB users a new default homepage that gets no update
 message in the case of failures, but right now the default-to-upgrade is
 the mechanism that tells old TBB users to upgrade... I didn't see any
 transient failures on the testing systems.

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