api-, content-, and workers can survive unlimited failed heartbeats
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Issue
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 598
- Forks
- 168
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 86
Description
Version
at least until 3.50
Describe the bug
When a worker of any kind consistently fails to heartbeat, it should eventually shut down.
Contributor guide
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing heartbeat failure handling for API, content, and worker processes; done means consistently failed heartbeats eventually cause each worker type to shut down rather than surviving indefinitely.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100