Joomla Update "Find Updates" Issue

[PhilETaylor]

Steps to reproduce the issue

Install a load of crap extensions (or just Virtuemart and a load of other crap). Or a site with 100 update sites...

(or be on a crap server that is blocking outgoing traffic in such a way that an outgoing http request hangs instead of getting a connection denied message)

Go to Extensions -> Update -> Find Updates

Note that if any one update site is slow or never ends then the page times out eventually or hangs for ever and ever.

Expected result

Expect a list of updates available

Actual result

Page just hangs because one or more update sites are pathetically slow or dead.

System information (as much as possible)

Joomla 3.6.5

Additional comments

Each update site check should be time boxed, or run in isolation (maybe in a separate ajax thread) so that one doesnt effect all.

[nibra]

their 404's are just highlighting the root issue in Joomla installer

@PhilETaylor, what behaviour would you expect instead (beside waiting 2 seconds instead of 20)?

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[RedEvo]

I would expect that all updates would be run in isolation and even maybe in parallel, with individual timeouts, per update, one per http request to avoid timeouts on servers

[dgrammatiko]

In J4 we can use promises and chain all these requests, so they would be async and the failures could be handled much better

[dgrammatiko]

I'll test the PR if you create it :)

[mbabker]

Nobody's saying it's not an issue. But for those who do PRs, either this isn't an "interesting" issue they want to tackle or they don't have the technical skill set to do anything with it.

[dgrammatiko]

or too busy with other 💩

[mbabker]

If you keep closing legitimate issues then they're never going to be tackled to begin with.

[mbabker]

The book is here on GitHub. There isn't a magical list elsewhere of known issues that might get tackled one day if someone is interested.

[mbabker]

If we were to list all of our annoyances with Joomla in GH then the issues list would be huge ;-)

That sounds like someone I groan at every time they publish a blog or tweet stream groaning about Joomla performance, they shut up every time I tell them to log an issue instead of groaning 😉