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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 17 February 2012 14:49:11 Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Robert Collins
> 
> <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Hear hear.

We spent so much time and effort getting it this far that my team and I would 
be *very* frustrated if it were turned off.

Personally, I don't care about people who have 20+ tabs open on Launchpad, I 
think they're freaks and edge cases.  The majority of users will not be doing 
that and will get extreme satisfaction from the working feature.

Let's get the wildcard domain thing sorted out which will alleviate the 
initial concerns and for those using Firefox with its global connection limit 
- tough.

> 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.

+1000

That's exactly what this was designed for.