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What version are you running?
reviewboard v1.0

What's the URL of the page containing the problem?
reviews.review-board.org/r/

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. review a review-request and ask to 'ship-it' the code
2. refresh the dashboard => the ship-it has not been updated

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The ship-it column should have been increased

What operating system are you using? What browser?
os : n/a
database: mysql 5.1.30
django: 1.0.2

Please provide any additional information below.
as adviced in the django documentation 
(http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/sql/) the new increment_ship_it 
method from reviews/models.py should commit the database update.
adding *transaction.commit_unless_managed()* just after the *cursor.execute(...)* 
has solved this issue on my server.