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Game support update concurrency issues
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# Game support
Bug
High priority
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 115
- Forks
- 62
- Avg merge
- 19h 7m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 5
Description
The game support updater causes issues if it runs in multiple workers at the same time
Instead, packages should be marked as dirty and updated by a bulk job
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the game support updater and tracing how it behaves when multiple workers run concurrently. Review how packages can be marked dirty and how bulk jobs are handled. Done means concurrent updater runs no longer cause conflicts and dirty packages are updated by a bulk job.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100