5-minute delay in Update Now mirror button is inconvenient
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Description
GitLab EE limits the frequency with which mirror updates can be pulled to no more than once every five minutes. The can delay critical changes from being mirrored.
It appears that this limitation has primarily been implemented to prevent problems at GitLab.com scale.
We should make the maximum mirror frequency configurable by instance to allow EE users to customize this to their needs. This will allow customers to manually trigger an update more frequently than every 5 minutes./
At least one customer deploys from a mirrored repository, which can delay hot fixes being deployed by up to five minutes.
Proposal
- Add configurable
mirror_max_frequency(or similar) to limit the frequency with which a project can be mirrored
Links / references
https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/82019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUztI4Lx-fQ
More info
- For repo mirroring for CI purposes follow #237891 (closed)