Support concurrent updates on the orders API resource

Registered by John Wood

If a PUT is made to an existing orders resource, the order record's metadata will be overwritten. Since orders are processed asynchronously by Barbican worker nodes, this could present a race condition with inconsistent order metadata processed by a worker at the same time it is being updated by an API node. This blueprint seeks to avoid this race condition. A motivation for this feature is to support updating SSL certificate orders 'in flight', say to correct a contact email address.

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Drafter:
John Wood
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Needs approval
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Definition:
New
Series goal:
Accepted for future
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Unknown
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