On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Deryck Hodge <deryck.ho...@canonical.com> wrote: > I'm worried that if we disable it, then we've taken the first step to > removing it, whether we actually remove it now or not. > > I'm not personally plagued by the issues enough to be bothered by it > in its current form. AIUI, the current issue are connection starving > for users of many tabs and some little js snafus we had in the combo > loader migration. That latter should be fixed now and no longer an > issue. If there are remaining js issues, I assure you we'll catch them > all before we leave maintenance. These are not hard things to track > down and fix, and in fact, disabling it will only hide the issues from > us.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bugs?field.tag=longpoll 3 criticals 4 highs (one of which can probably be shelved) > If these are indeed the only issues, I don't think it's serious enough > to disable longpoll now and would rather we as lp devs live with it a > bit until we can get more attention to finish longpoll completely. > > It feels to me like we might as well agree to never have polling from > the browser if we disable it now. That is a more serious issue to me > than the few issues we've bumped up against. Maybe I'm being too > pessimistic about the feature's chances if we turn it off, but I'd > prefer we erred on the side of completing the work, rather than losing > the work. Then we *must* resource it. It *is* causing issues - just having three tabs open is enough to make other code.lp.net pages load slower (due to less concurrent requests). Noticable issues amongst 25 people is pretty much a guarantee of disaster amongst thousands. Please understand, I was and am a huge proponent of the project; but its currently unfinished inventory; I find it hard to reconcile our desire to only released polished work and where we are at with this. -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
