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news/deploy/news-cycle.service
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connor 83bc36aa79 Schedule poll/notify and the digest as systemd timers
news-cycle.timer runs poll then notify every 15 minutes; news-digest.timer runs
the briefing at 08:45 daily. Both enabled and verified: a manual cycle fetched
1047 items, embedded 95 new ones and clustered them in 74s.

Units are installed as COPIES rather than symlinks. The previous service's units
were symlinked into docs/projects/news/deploy/, and when that repo was renamed
to news_triage they became dangling and the timer failed every ten minutes,
unnoticed, until this rebuild found it. Copying costs a re-copy after editing;
symlinking cost days of silent failure.

Deliberate details: the poll ExecStart is `-` prefixed so a failed fetch does not
skip notify; RandomizedDelaySec spreads polling off the quarter hour rather than
hitting 56 sources at once; the digest is Persistent so a machine that was off
at 08:45 still sends rather than skipping the day.
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[Unit]
Description=news: fetch, embed, cluster, then send any alerts
Documentation=file:///home/connor/docs/projects/news/deploy/README.md
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
# `-` on the poll so a failed fetch does not skip notify: there may still be
# ripe clusters from an earlier cycle worth sending.
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/podman exec connor_news-backend_1 python -m news.cli poll
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman exec connor_news-backend_1 python -m news.cli notify
# A cold cycle embeds the whole backlog at ~11 items/sec, so it can legitimately
# run for minutes. Steady state is far quicker; this is a ceiling, not a target.
TimeoutStartSec=20min