Last modified: 2014-01-22 19:30:26 UTC
When a user has installed a gadget that relies on data from an external server, VisualEditor appears to wait indefinitely for that server to respond. Normally this is OK, but when that server is down VE will apparently wait forever (or at least longer than the 5 minutes I was prepared to wait) for a response. The source editor appears to give up after a wile (2 minutes?), and loads as if the gadget was not called. VE should exhibit this behaviour too. Tested with the HAPPI gadget ([[User:EpochFail/HAPPI]]). As of 21:52 UTC 05 August 2013 that gadget depends on a server at wikipedia.grouplens.org that is not responding
Surely this is the responsibility of the gadget's author? Also, not sure if the wikitext editor executes poorly-responding gadgets, or it's just apparent happenstance. Either way, 120 seconds is about an order of magnitude too high. Sorry for very slow triage.
