We'll be having a short maintenance tomorrow, 9 September 2025, starting around 9am PDT to apply a couple of configuration changes recommended by GitLab support following the slowdowns experienced last week. Whilst not yet a solution this should provide better performance for background jobs and potentially provide more information in the logs if/when the slowdowns start happening again. I expect the downtime to be brief, as in only a few minutes...
The GCN rates are currently defined as
gcn_rate = 547 / (365 * 24 * 60 * 60)This code evaluates to zero in Python 2. I am sure RAVEN runs under Python 3 already and plans to do so in the future, but let's protect ourselves from the occasional crazy situation. I recommend making the various constants floats by using trailing periods.