Action "public" not very useful ...

[gregoa]

We received the following but report in the Debian BTS:

https://bugs.debian.org/787961

The author points out that "--action public" never outputs anything while creating constant network traffic.

AFAICS, the public actions uses the streaming endpoint, so maybe bti at some point needs to stop reading from the stream and/or start outputting contents after some time?

Cheers,
gregor

[gregkh]

Hm, maybe, I don't use this option, so I don't really care much about it. We should probably just drop it...

[gregoa]

Update from the debian bug report: It looks like Twitter has removed this feature; so yes, dropping the option and its documentation seems to be the right action.

[vinc17fr]

I've just learned that this feature is no longer supported by Twitter (too many people?), at least for the REST API.

FYI, when I reported the bug in the Debian BTS, I used it just for testing (after getting an update failure, IIRC), otherwise I don't use it either. It's quite useless nowadays.

[vinc17fr]

So, I think that it should be removed and no longer be documented.