The common role provides mechanism for performing Python virtual environment checks via the pip-tools suite of utilities. The current implementation suffers from a couple of drawbacks:

• The check is performed on hourly basis, resulting in a lot of mails being sent out to the administrator, since the administrator will most likely not apply update immediately (since those very often need to be verified for breakage etc).
• The script that performs the check requires that all of the .in files have a corresponding .txt file, and produces warnings otherwise. This becomes annoying when the -r inclusion options are used within input files, since it will often result in multiple files getting checked (while we only want to do so for a single file that is actually used by an application).

The following should be done:

• Update the common role to run the Python virtual environment package update checks only once per day.
• Update the common role script that performs Python virtual environment package update checks to ignore .in requirements files without corresponding .txt file. Lower the message to info instead of warning.
• Update role reference documentation to reference the new frequency.
• Update release notes.