Publish LiveSite Content Workflow hangs

We had an issue where non-administrators workflows would hang while trying to publish .page files in TS 7.2.1.

Symptom: the workflow would not move past "1 of 3 deployments"
Resolution: the layout file (default/main/[branch]/WORKAREA/development/iw/config/fixed-layout/[fn.xml] must be writable by the person doing the submit.

Personally I don't want my business partners to have write access to the page layout file, but apparently it's necessary for the workflow to work.

This issue took over 2 months to resolve, I'm hoping this post can help someone avoid that.
(Yes I'm cross posting this)

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nipper

OK, possibility

There is a bug in the WF, where it automagically attaches all dependencies to a WF and not only the dependencies that have been modified.

There is a Java Bean you can set to take only the modified files. This should prevent the layout from being submitted and deployed and fix your issue.

I will find the change I made to make it work. Figured it out because a single page was causing 350 files to deploy every freaking time.

nipper

added this to customer-teamsite-resource-config.xml which overrides the AssetDependencyProcessor configuration

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class="com.interwoven.livesite.dependency.impl.AssetDependencyProcessor">

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(remove the spaces that the forum puts in my post)