Or, even better, have it as an opt-in feature via a group such as launchpad-longpoll-users. That way, new people who use a lot of tabs won't be discouraged when code.launchpad.net suddenly stops working with their preferred workflow.
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:11 -0500, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: > On 12-02-17 10:02 AM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: > > On 12-02-16 07:45 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Ian Booth <ian.bo...@canonical.com> wrote: > >>> We've spent time developing it and it provides very much wanted > >>> functionality. I do hope that "disable" doesn't mean turn it off and > >>> delete in a few months once everyone forgets about it. There's already a > >>> large sunk cost in getting it this far, how much work is required to get > >>> it over the line? Is that something the maintenance squad could pick up? > >> > >> The LEP links to the bugs, you can have a read and make an assessment. > >> > > > > I can't find the LEP, but my recollection is that there is only one big > > problem which is user self-inflicted and thus could probably be marked > > Won't fix. > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/906482 > > > > The root issue is that any longpolling from JS makes it easy to get in > > the per-host (or even total) browser connection limits as each tab you > > have open has a long-standing open connection with the server. > > > > For example, Firefox maximum connection limits is 24. So after opening > > 24 tabs with a longpoll connection, the web should fail permenently for > > you, until you free those up. > > > > So either we accept that users won't be able to open multiple tabs > > anymore, or we drop the whole longpoll concepts altogether. > > > > There might be a middle-way actually here. > > Let's create an open team called 'serial-launchpad-tab-openers' for the > users who can't live without opening 20 tabs. And let's use feature > flags to disable the feature for them :-) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
