We actually run more data thru our hosted ( free for subscribers) than our paid 
hub....  And I m not sure ayup is still a thing.
Also, we do not use the GAE software...

--
Julien Genestoux

Sent from phone, please pardon brevity and typos. 

On Jul 6, 2012, at 2:09 AM, "Martin B." <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, 99% might be free, but the two you and ayup are running might be 
> covering a much larger portion of hub users than 1%. To be honest, I don't 
> see why this can't be an easily configurable option. (At the moment it's not 
> really, you need to mess around with lease times and disable some code etc). 
> Anyway, I don't care much for overly "smart" specs, just smart tools that can 
> be actually used, so..
> 
> Cheers
> 
> On Friday, July 6, 2012 12:45:55 AM UTC+1, Julien wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> The only thing is that, at least for now, 99% of the hubs are actually free 
> hubs... so there is no customer paying, and when a subscriber callback dies, 
> there is no way for the hub to know for sure :)
> So, we'll stick with expirations and re-confirmation in the spec for now!
> 
> Julien
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Martin B. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Julien,
> 
> Well, in general I disagree with this confirmation process - basically 
> regardless of what the service is, when a client subscribes to it, you don't 
> keep on asking him "do you still want this?" as long as he pays (where 
> applicable) and as long as his subscription callback is accepting data.
> 
> So basically I understand that the GAE hub doesn't really support the feature 
> by default - as you said, I'm sure I'll find a way to make it support it ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> 
> On Thursday, July 5, 2012 6:08:37 PM UTC+1, Julien wrote:
> Hey Martin,
> 
> Generally, you actually want to have some kind of deadline to the 
> subscription on the hub and not stuck with it for your whole life.
> Basically, feeds (like any other web resource) may go down, and/or 
> subscribers may also disappear... you want to be able to check that and stop 
> notification to these.
> 
> The new 0.4 spec will probably insist on the fact that subscriptions need to 
> stay 'clean' for both the subscribers and the hub who some kind of garbage 
> collection mechanism.
> 
> As for the GAE hub implementation, I haven't looked at it in a long time, but 
> I'm sure you can can find ways to dp what you want.
> 
> Thanks,
> Julien
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Martin B. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm looking at the 0.3 version of the hub and it seems that the expiration 
> feature is required for all subscriptions. However, the 0.3 spec draft seems 
> to suggest that hubs may decide if subscriptions will expire or not? 
> Basically, I'm looking to build a hub where subscriptions don't expire and 
> don't need to be reconfirmed - is it simply a matter of removing the cron 
> jobs for subscription reconfirmation/cleanup or will the latter also result 
> in unsubscribed subscriptions not being cleaned up (not sure if those are 
> deleted straight away, or when subscription_cleanup is called).
> 
> If there is no clean way to set this up, I'll hack around, was just wondering 
> if I'm missing some easy switch somewhere or something.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> 

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