In production setups, dynamically creating content based on external events (form submissions, RSS feeds, etc.) is perilous because the index watchdog can end up stomping over the automated changes, which can lead to duplicate entries or other weird behavior. This adds a configuration option, index_enable_watchdog, which defaults to True but can be disabled, so as to allow a production site to choose when content gets reindexed.
Summary
Allow disabling the index watchdog; fixes #475
Detailed description
In production setups, dynamically creating content based on external events (form submissions, RSS feeds, etc.) is perilous because the index watchdog can end up stomping over the automated changes, which can lead to duplicate entries or other weird behavior. This adds a configuration option,
index_enable_watchdog, which defaults toTruebut can be disabled, so as to allow a production site to choose when content gets reindexed.Test plan
Manually smoke-tested.