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News & Views
on 18th July 2009
On the old reports site there was, a sometimes misleading, account of the date the page was last updated. It was usually the right date, but it was rarely the right time :) As a consequence it was confusing for some as to when the page was truly updated, as it often would take some time before reports would show up for a particular distribution, and for a new release to appear.
With all the changes made to now create the dynamic and static Reports sites, the report information is updated into the database every two hours. However, due to the sheer volume of reports, distributions and authors, generating all the pages takes a considerable amount of time. There are measures in place to try and not let pages that should be updated linger in the queue too long, but it still useful to know when a page was last updated.
As such an update to the reports site today, now includes that information, providing the page has been built since today of course! So you'll now know how old a page is. On the dynamic site, if the warning of the page being in an update queue is not displayed, then regardless of how old the page is, the page contains all the report information available.
Hopefully this will help to make it a little easier to appreciate how current a particular page is. As it can take a week to generate the whole site, if you spot any page with an update queue message, lingering for longer than about 5 days, please let me know, and I'll investigate
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