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[Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:34 AM, 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].

It is sad, because it is one of those bits of infrastructure we need
but it is always going to be quicker to hack together a poor
implementation for a feature that needs it rather than do the work to
get it into a usable state for all the future features that need it.

I was saddened to learn that it wasn't operational (despite me seeing
it in action regularly and having seen demonstrations of it working)
after recommending it to jml for one of his projects. jono's trophies
work could also make use of it - rabbit->world gateway is useful. But
I expect both with just go with polling or web scraping if it is not
up to spec in time.

The nasty open bug being described here seems to be a client side
issue (opening all available connections to a domain and holding them
open, rather than dropping occasionally to let others use a connection
or wildcard domain magic to work around the limit), so the server side
is just fine?

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Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>