This is my fix for award-lifecycle-badges. Changes;

- Pulling the userlist from fas now loops over each letter of the alphabet to avoid time out issues
- I call time.sleep(60) after awarding a badge to help avoid overwhelming the frontend

roles/badges/backend/files/cron/award-lifecycle-badges

@@ -32,18 +32,16 @@ fedmsg.init(**fm_config)
 
 import fedbadges.utils
 
+# generates a list of search terms
+# alpha map is just a lowercase english alphabet
 
-#a simple listcomp to generate a lists of searchterms
-#allows us to break the fas userlist down to smaller chunks
-#so the cron job doesn't hang
-def get_fas_searchterm():
-    ast = "*"
+def gen_fas_searchterms():
     alpha = map(chr, range(97, 123))
-    searchterms = [ term_str + ast for term_str in alpha ]
+    searchterms = [ alpha_ltr + "*" for alpha_ltr in alpha ]
     return searchterms
 
 
-def get_fas_userlist(fas_credentials):
+def get_fas_userlist(fas_credentials, search_qry):
     creds = fas_credentials
 
     fasclient = fedora.client.fas2.AccountSystem(
@@ -51,28 +49,24 @@ def get_fas_userlist(fas_credentials):
         password=creds['password'],
     )
 
-    timeout
     timeout = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
     socket.setdefaulttimeout(600)
-    searchterm = get_fas_searchterms()
-    for search_elem in searchterm:
-        try:
-            log.info("Downloading FAS cache")
-            request = fasclient.send_request('/user/list',
-                                         req_params={'search': search_elem},
+    try:
+        log.info("Downloading FAS cache")
+        request = fasclient.send_request('/user/list',
+                                         req_params={'search': search_qry},
                                          auth=True)
-            fas_userlist.update(request)
-        finally:
-            socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
+	
+    finally:
+        socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
 
     # We don't actually check for CLA+1, just "2 groups"
-    return [p for p in fas_userlist['people'] if len(p.memberships) > 1]
+    return [p for p in request['people'] if len(p.memberships) > 1]
 
 
 def main():
     now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
     year = datetime.timedelta(days=365.5)
-    search_terms = get_fas_searchterms() 
     mapping = {
         'egg': year * 1,
         'embryo': year * 2,
@@ -88,16 +82,22 @@ def main():
         assert(badge.id)
 
     # Then, do a long query against FAS for our candidates.
-    # looping over a list of search terms allows us to work around the socket timeout
-    results = get_fas_userlist(fas_credentials=fm_config['fas_credentials'])
+    # Here I call search terms to generate a lists of search terms
+    # Looping over the list of search terms, pass the search term to get_fas_userlists	
 
-    for badge_id, delta in mapping.items():
-        badge = tahrir.get_badge(badge_id=badge_id)
-        for person in results:
-            creation = datetime.datetime.strptime(
-               person.creation.split('.')[0], '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
-            if now - creation > delta:
-                hit_em_up(badge, person)
+    fas_credentials = fm_config['fas_credentials']
+    searchterms = gen_fas_searchterms()
+    for search_elem in searchterms:
+        results = get_fas_userlist(fas_credentials, search_elem)
+
+        for badge_id, delta in mapping.items():
+            badge = tahrir.get_badge(badge_id=badge_id)
+            for person in results:
+                creation = datetime.datetime.strptime(
+                    person.creation.split('.')[0], '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+                if now - creation > delta:
+                    hit_em_up(badge, person)
+		    time.sleep(60)
 
 
 def hit_em_up(badge, fas_user):

roles/badges/backend/files/cron/award-lifecycle-badges-old

@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import __main__
+# This is going to require sqlalchemy 0.8 sooner than later.
+__main__.__requires__ = __requires__ = ["tahrir-api", "sqlalchemy>=0.7"];
+import pkg_resources
+pkg_resources.require(__requires__)
+
+import datetime
+import time
+import urllib
+import socket
+
+from tahrir_api.dbapi import TahrirDatabase
+import transaction
+
+_fas_cache = {}
+
+import logging
+log = logging.getLogger()
+logging.basicConfig()
+import fedora.client.fas2
+
+import fedmsg
+import fedmsg.config
+
+fm_config = fedmsg.config.load_config()
+fm_config['cert_prefix'] = 'fedbadges'
+fm_config['name'] = 'relay_inbound'
+fm_config['active'] = True
+fedmsg.init(**fm_config)
+
+import fedbadges.utils
+
+
+#a simple listcomp to generate a lists of searchterms
+#allows us to break the fas userlist down to smaller chunks
+#so the cron job doesn't hang
+def get_fas_searchterm():
+    ast = "*"
+    alpha = map(chr, range(97, 123))
+    searchterms = [ term_str + ast for term_str in alpha ]
+    return searchterms
+
+
+def get_fas_userlist(fas_credentials):
+    creds = fas_credentials
+
+    fasclient = fedora.client.fas2.AccountSystem(
+        username=creds['username'],
+        password=creds['password'],
+    )
+
+    timeout
+    timeout = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
+    socket.setdefaulttimeout(600)
+    searchterm = get_fas_searchterms()
+    for search_elem in searchterm:
+        try:
+            log.info("Downloading FAS cache")
+            request = fasclient.send_request('/user/list',
+                                         req_params={'search': search_elem},
+                                         auth=True)
+            fas_userlist.update(request)
+        finally:
+            socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
+
+    # We don't actually check for CLA+1, just "2 groups"
+    return [p for p in fas_userlist['people'] if len(p.memberships) > 1]
+
+
+def main():
+    now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+    year = datetime.timedelta(days=365.5)
+    search_terms = get_fas_searchterms() 
+    mapping = {
+        'egg': year * 1,
+        'embryo': year * 2,
+        'tadpole': year * 3,
+        'tadpole-with-legs': year * 5,
+        'froglet': year * 7,
+        'adult-frog': year * 10,
+    }
+
+    # First, some validation that the badge ids actually exist.
+    for badge_id, delta in mapping.items():
+        badge = tahrir.get_badge(badge_id=badge_id)
+        assert(badge.id)
+
+    # Then, do a long query against FAS for our candidates.
+    # looping over a list of search terms allows us to work around the socket timeout
+    results = get_fas_userlist(fas_credentials=fm_config['fas_credentials'])
+
+    for badge_id, delta in mapping.items():
+        badge = tahrir.get_badge(badge_id=badge_id)
+        for person in results:
+            creation = datetime.datetime.strptime(
+               person.creation.split('.')[0], '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+            if now - creation > delta:
+                hit_em_up(badge, person)
+
+
+def hit_em_up(badge, fas_user):
+    email = fas_user.username + "@fedoraproject.org"
+    user = tahrir.get_person(email)
+
+    if not user:
+        return
+
+    if tahrir.assertion_exists(badge.id, email):
+        print email, "already has", badge.id, "skipping."
+        return
+
+    time.sleep(1)
+    print "awarding", badge.id, "to", email
+    try:
+        transaction.begin()
+        tahrir.add_assertion(badge.id, email, None)
+        transaction.commit()
+    except Exception as e:
+        transaction.abort()
+        print "Failure:", e
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    uri = fm_config['badges_global']['database_uri']
+    tahrir = TahrirDatabase(
+        uri,
+        notification_callback=fedbadges.utils.notification_callback,
+    )
+    main()