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Adjusts GitlabSubscription#requiring_seat_refresh scope

Vijay Hawoldar requested to merge vij-adjust-refresh-seat-worker-time into master

What does this MR do and why?

During rollout of the feature flag controller the limited capacity worker, GitlabSubscriptions::RefreshSeatsWorker, I noticed that our usage of timestamps was exhibiting peculiar behaviour after the initial refresh was carried out.

Background

We schedule the limited capacity jobs every 6 hours, i.e. 00:00:00, 06:00:00, 12:00:00 and 18:00:00.

When the limited capacity job begins performing, it:

  • finds GitlabSubscription records that have not been updated in 24 hours or more by inspecting the last_seat_refresh_at column
  • updates the last_seat_refresh_at to be the current time
  • moves onto the next subscription, if there are any

This has the possibility to miss subscriptions depending on execution time, until the next scheduled time, i.e. 6 hours later. There's a more detailed explanation here: #382725 (comment 1286486024)

This MR attempts to resolve the problem by adjusting the scope look back to be 18 hours from 24 hours, to ensure we're catching those edge cases. More detail here: #382725 (comment 1292471927)

This work is behind a disabled feature flag.

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Edited by Vijay Hawoldar

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