This is a shorterm mitigation to turn certain classes of bugs in the archivist from "catastrophic" to "annoying"
The idea is that, currently if a archival task is failing (eg due to bad permissions), it gets nacked and goes into the front of the pubsub queue. This is bad because legitimate requests are in the back of the queue and may never get processed. If the message is acked instead, it allows legitimate requests to get processed first before the bad request is processed again.
Comment 1 by hinoka@chromium.org
, Nov 20Status: Started (was: Available)