Updates for the production system#1

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Commits on Aug 23, 2012

Make the update in a separate thread so that github stops dinging us for being too slow.
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Adding an idea for a forking background worker to get past the Thread queue sometimes blocking bug.
Zev Blut
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Use the actual author of the submodule's change as the commiter, so that CI and other messages will point to the real person.
Zev Blut
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Commits on Aug 24, 2012