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So, it used to be that when someone was granted commit access to a package in the Fedora PackageDB (pkgdb), the webapp simply wrote to a database table indicating the new relationship. Every hour, a cronjob would run that queried the state of that database and then re-wrote out the ACLs for gitolite -- the software that manages access to our package repositories.

Consequently, we had lots of waiting: you would request commit access to a repository, then wait for an owner to grant you rights, then wait for that cronjob to run before you could actually push.

With this new fedmsg consumer that we have in place, those gitolite ACLs will be re-written in response to fedmsg messages from the pkgdb. It is much faster, although not instantaneous. Ballpark: 2 minutes.

Happy hacking!