On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Jonathan Lange <j...@mumak.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Robert Collins
> <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> I think we should disable longpoll; its not finished, noone is working
>> on it, and it causes semi-regular confusion for folk in the LP team
>> when they cannot use code.launchpad.net.
>>
>> Any objections? [I'm not proposing removing the code yet].
>>
>
> I have a mild objection. As a frequent user of the website, I would
> really like to see this feature completed.

So would I. I am -very- disappointed that this feature isn't ready to
deploy. I had huge hopes :(.

> Also, on IRC, stub suggested that perhaps this could help me as an API
> user, reducing my need to poll. If that were the case, then surely
> that would lead to reduced load on Launchpad, perhaps leading to a
> reduced maintenance cost.

There's no planned work on doing that today, but yes, push
notifications and subscribing to objects are tightly related and some
very cool stuff could happen through that approach.

-Rob

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