This function returns a list of all the deployments directories
which are newer than some threshold number of days including the
`/root/zulip` directory if it exists.
This saves us from spending 200-250ms of CPU time importing Django
again just to log that we're running a management command. On
`scripts/restart-server`, this saves us from one thundering herd of
Django startups when all the queue workers are restarted; but there's
still the Django startup for the `manage.py` process itself for each
worker, so on a machine with e.g. 2 (virtual) cores the restart is
still painful.
This causes `upgrade-zulip-from-git`, as well as a no-option run of
`tools/build-release-tarball`, to produce a Zulip install running
Python 3, rather than Python 2. In particular this means that the
virtualenv we create, in which all application code runs, is Python 3.
One shebang line, on `zulip-ec2-configure-interfaces`, explicitly
keeps Python 2, and at least one external ops script, `wal-e`, also
still runs on Python 2. See discussion on the respective previous
commits that made those explicit. There may also be some other
third-party scripts we use, outside of this source tree and running
outside our virtualenv, that still run on Python 2.
For performance reasons, we spawn each linter in a separate OS thread.
The downside of this is that all lints would end up in stdout without
much visual separation, resulting in confusing error log. This commit
introduce the `print_err` function, which shows which linter each line
of lint is from.
Harshit Bansal
Greg Price
Tommy Ip
Umair Khan
Rishi Gupta
Tim Abbott
Ayush Goyal
Taranjeet Singh