This resolves a problem I encountered while updating gitea from 1.20.4
to 1.21. For some reason (correct or otherwise) there are some values in
`repository.size` that are NULL in my gitea database which cause this
migration to fail due to the NOT NULL constraints.
Log snippet (excuse the escape characters)
```
ESC[36mgitea |ESC[0m 2023-12-04T03:52:28.573122395Z 2023/12/04 03:52:28 ...ations/migrations.go:641:Migrate() [I] Migration[263]: Add git_size and lfs_size columns to repository table
ESC[36mgitea |ESC[0m 2023-12-04T03:52:28.608705544Z 2023/12/04 03:52:28 routers/common/db.go:36:InitDBEngine() [E] ORM engine initialization attempt #3/10 failed. Error: migrate: migration[263]: Add git_size and lfs_size columns to repository table failed: NOT NULL constraint failed: repository.git_size
```
I assume this should be reasonably safe since `repository.git_size` has
a default value of 0 but I don't know if that value being 0 in the odd
situation where `repository.size == NULL` has any problematic
consequences.
Closes #27455
> The mechanism responsible for long-term authentication (the 'remember
me' cookie) uses a weak construction technique. It will hash the user's
hashed password and the rands value; it will then call the secure cookie
code, which will encrypt the user's name with the computed hash. If one
were able to dump the database, they could extract those two values to
rebuild that cookie and impersonate a user. That vulnerability exists
from the date the dump was obtained until a user changed their password.
>
> To fix this security issue, the cookie could be created and verified
using a different technique such as the one explained at
https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/04/secure-authentication-php-with-long-term-persistence#secure-remember-me-cookies.
The PR removes the now obsolete setting `COOKIE_USERNAME`.
Part of https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/27097:
- `gitea` theme is renamed to `gitea-light`
- `arc-green` theme is renamed to `gitea-dark`
- `auto` theme is renamed to `gitea-auto`
I put both themes in separate CSS files, removing all colors from the
base CSS. Existing users will be migrated to the new theme names. The
dark theme recolor will follow in a separate PR.
## ⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️
1. If there are existing custom themes with the names `gitea-light` or
`gitea-dark`, rename them before this upgrade and update the `theme`
column in the `user` table for each affected user.
2. The theme in `<html>` has moved from `class="theme-name"` to
`data-theme="name"`, existing customizations that depend on should be
updated.
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Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
This PR reduces the complexity of the system setting system.
It only needs one line to introduce a new option, and the option can be
used anywhere out-of-box.
It is still high-performant (and more performant) because the config
values are cached in the config system.
This fixes a performance bottleneck. It was discovered by Codeberg.
Every where query on that table (which has grown big over time) uses
this column, but there is no index on it.
See this part of the log which was posted on Matrix:
```
2023/09/10 00:52:01 ...rs/web/repo/issue.go:1446:ViewIssue() [W] [Slow SQL Query] UPDATE `issue_user` SET is_read=? WHERE uid=? AND issue_id=? [true x y] - 51.395434887s
2023/09/10 00:52:01 ...rs/web/repo/issue.go:1447:ViewIssue() [E] ReadBy: Error 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction
2023/09/10 00:52:01 ...eb/routing/logger.go:102:func1() [I] router: completed GET /Codeberg/Community/issues/1201 for [::ffff:xxx]:0, 500 Internal Server Error in 52384.2ms @ repo/issue.go:1256(repo.ViewIssue)
```
Fix the bug on try.gitea.io
```log
2023/09/18 01:48:41 ...ations/migrations.go:635:Migrate() [I] Migration[276]: Add RemoteAddress to mirrors
2023/09/18 01:48:41 routers/common/db.go:34:InitDBEngine() [E] ORM engine initialization attempt #7/10 failed. Error: migrate: migration[276]: Add RemoteAddress to mirrors failed: exit status 128 - fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
- fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
```
Caused by #26952
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This PR adds a new field `RemoteAddress` to both mirror types which
contains the sanitized remote address for easier (database) access to
that information. Will be used in the audit PR if merged.
Currently, Artifact does not have an expiration and automatic cleanup
mechanism, and this feature needs to be added. It contains the following
key points:
- [x] add global artifact retention days option in config file. Default
value is 90 days.
- [x] add cron task to clean up expired artifacts. It should run once a
day.
- [x] support custom retention period from `retention-days: 5` in
`upload-artifact@v3`.
- [x] artifacts link in actions view should be non-clickable text when
expired.
In PR #26786, the Go version for golangci-lint is bumped to 1.21. This
causes the following error:
```
models/migrations/v1_16/v210.go:132:23: SA1019: elliptic.Marshal has been deprecated since Go 1.21: for ECDH, use the crypto/ecdh package. This function returns an encoding equivalent to that of PublicKey.Bytes in crypto/ecdh. (staticcheck)
PublicKey: elliptic.Marshal(elliptic.P256(), parsed.PubKey.X, parsed.PubKey.Y),
```
The change now uses [func (*PublicKey)
ECDH](https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/ecdsa#PublicKey.ECDH), which is added in
Go 1.20.
Replace #22751
1. only support the default branch in the repository setting.
2. autoload schedule data from the schedule table after starting the
service.
3. support specific syntax like `@yearly`, `@monthly`, `@weekly`,
`@daily`, `@hourly`
## How to use
See the [GitHub Actions
document](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-that-trigger-workflows#schedule)
for getting more detailed information.
```yaml
on:
schedule:
- cron: '30 5 * * 1,3'
- cron: '30 5 * * 2,4'
jobs:
test_schedule:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Not on Monday or Wednesday
if: github.event.schedule != '30 5 * * 1,3'
run: echo "This step will be skipped on Monday and Wednesday"
- name: Every time
run: echo "This step will always run"
```
Signed-off-by: Bo-Yi.Wu <appleboy.tw@gmail.com>
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Co-authored-by: techknowlogick <techknowlogick@gitea.io>
Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
## Archived labels
This adds the structure to allow for archived labels.
Archived labels are, just like closed milestones or projects, a medium to hide information without deleting it.
It is especially useful if there are outdated labels that should no longer be used without deleting the label entirely.
## Changes
1. UI and API have been equipped with the support to mark a label as archived
2. The time when a label has been archived will be stored in the DB
## Outsourced for the future
There's no special handling for archived labels at the moment.
This will be done in the future.
## Screenshots
Part of https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/25237
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Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
The xorm `Sync2` has already been deprecated in favor of `Sync`,
so let's do the same inside the Gitea codebase.
Command used to replace everything:
```sh
for i in $(ag Sync2 --files-with-matches); do vim $i -c ':%sno/Sync2/Sync/g' -c ':wq'; done
```
Fixes #25918
The migration fails on MSSQL because xorm tries to update the primary
key column. xorm prevents this if the column is marked as auto
increment:
c622cdaf89/internal/statements/update.go (L38-L40)
I think it would be better if xorm would check for primary key columns
here because updating such columns is bad practice. It looks like if
that auto increment check should do the same.
fyi @lunny
- cancel running jobs if the event is push
- Add a new function `CancelRunningJobs` to cancel all running jobs of a
run
- Update `FindRunOptions` struct to include `Ref` field and update its
condition in `toConds` function
- Implement auto cancellation of running jobs in the same workflow in
`notify` function
related task: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/22751/
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Signed-off-by: Bo-Yi Wu <appleboy.tw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: appleboy <appleboy.tw@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jason Song <i@wolfogre.com>
Co-authored-by: delvh <dev.lh@web.de>
Close #24544
Changes:
- Create `action_tasks_version` table to store the latest version of
each scope (global, org and repo).
- When a job with the status of `waiting` is created, the tasks version
of the scopes it belongs to will increase.
- When the status of a job already in the database is updated to
`waiting`, the tasks version of the scopes it belongs to will increase.
- On Gitea side, in `FeatchTask()`, will try to query the
`action_tasks_version` record of the scope of the runner that call
`FetchTask()`. If the record does not exist, will insert a row. Then,
Gitea will compare the version passed from runner to Gitea with the
version in database, if inconsistent, try pick task. Gitea always
returns the latest version from database to the runner.
Related:
- Protocol: https://gitea.com/gitea/actions-proto-def/pulls/10
- Runner: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/219
Fix #25776. Close #25826.
In the discussion of #25776, @wolfogre's suggestion was to remove the
commit status of `running` and `warning` to keep it consistent with
github.
references:
-
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/commits/statuses?apiVersion=2022-11-28#about-commit-statuses
## ⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️
So the commit status of Gitea will be consistent with GitHub, only
`pending`, `success`, `error` and `failure`, while `warning` and
`running` are not supported anymore.
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current actions artifacts implementation only support single file
artifact. To support multiple files uploading, it needs:
- save each file to each db record with same run-id, same artifact-name
and proper artifact-path
- need change artifact uploading url without artifact-id, multiple files
creates multiple artifact-ids
- support `path` in download-artifact action. artifact should download
to `{path}/{artifact-path}`.
- in repo action view, it provides zip download link in artifacts list
in summary page, no matter this artifact contains single or multiple
files.
Related #14180
Related #25233
Related #22639
Close #19786
Related #12763
This PR will change all the branches retrieve method from reading git
data to read database to reduce git read operations.
- [x] Sync git branches information into database when push git data
- [x] Create a new table `Branch`, merge some columns of `DeletedBranch`
into `Branch` table and drop the table `DeletedBranch`.
- [x] Read `Branch` table when visit `code` -> `branch` page
- [x] Read `Branch` table when list branch names in `code` page dropdown
- [x] Read `Branch` table when list git ref compare page
- [x] Provide a button in admin page to manually sync all branches.
- [x] Sync branches if repository is not empty but database branches are
empty when visiting pages with branches list
- [x] Use `commit_time desc` as the default FindBranch order by to keep
consistent as before and deleted branches will be always at the end.
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releated to #21820
- Split `Size` in repository table as two new colunms, one is `GitSize`
for git size, the other is `LFSSize` for lfs data. still store full size
in `Size` colunm.
- Show full size on ui, but show each of them by a `title`; example:
- Return full size in api response.
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Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-authored-by: DmitryFrolovTri <23313323+DmitryFrolovTri@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
Fix #25088
This PR adds the support for
[`pull_request_target`](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-that-trigger-workflows#pull_request_target)
workflow trigger. `pull_request_target` is similar to `pull_request`,
but the workflow triggered by the `pull_request_target` event runs in
the context of the base branch of the pull request rather than the head
branch. Since the workflow from the base is considered trusted, it can
access the secrets and doesn't need approvals to run.
# The problem
There were many "path tricks":
* By default, Gitea uses its program directory as its work path
* Gitea tries to use the "work path" to guess its "custom path" and
"custom conf (app.ini)"
* Users might want to use other directories as work path
* The non-default work path should be passed to Gitea by GITEA_WORK_DIR
or "--work-path"
* But some Gitea processes are started without these values
* The "serv" process started by OpenSSH server
* The CLI sub-commands started by site admin
* The paths are guessed by SetCustomPathAndConf again and again
* The default values of "work path / custom path / custom conf" can be
changed when compiling
# The solution
* Use `InitWorkPathAndCommonConfig` to handle these path tricks, and use
test code to cover its behaviors.
* When Gitea's web server runs, write the WORK_PATH to "app.ini", this
value must be the most correct one, because if this value is not right,
users would find that the web UI doesn't work and then they should be
able to fix it.
* Then all other sub-commands can use the WORK_PATH in app.ini to
initialize their paths.
* By the way, when Gitea starts for git protocol, it shouldn't output
any log, otherwise the git protocol gets broken and client blocks
forever.
The "work path" priority is: WORK_PATH in app.ini > cmd arg --work-path
> env var GITEA_WORK_DIR > builtin default
The "app.ini" searching order is: cmd arg --config > cmd arg "work path
/ custom path" > env var "work path / custom path" > builtin default
## ⚠️ BREAKING
If your instance's "work path / custom path / custom conf" doesn't meet
the requirements (eg: work path must be absolute), Gitea will report a
fatal error and exit. You need to set these values according to the
error log.
----
Close #24818
Close #24222
Close #21606
Close #21498
Close #25107
Close #24981
Maybe close #24503
Replace #23301
Replace #22754
And maybe more
Follow up #22405
Fix #20703
This PR rewrites storage configuration read sequences with some breaks
and tests. It becomes more strict than before and also fixed some
inherit problems.
- Move storage's MinioConfig struct into setting, so after the
configuration loading, the values will be stored into the struct but not
still on some section.
- All storages configurations should be stored on one section,
configuration items cannot be overrided by multiple sections. The
prioioty of configuration is `[attachment]` > `[storage.attachments]` |
`[storage.customized]` > `[storage]` > `default`
- For extra override configuration items, currently are `SERVE_DIRECT`,
`MINIO_BASE_PATH`, `MINIO_BUCKET`, which could be configured in another
section. The prioioty of the override configuration is `[attachment]` >
`[storage.attachments]` > `default`.
- Add more tests for storages configurations.
- Update the storage documentations.
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close #24540
related:
- Protocol: https://gitea.com/gitea/actions-proto-def/pulls/9
- Runner side: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/201
changes:
- Add column of `labels` to table `action_runner`, and combine the value
of `agent_labels` and `custom_labels` column to `labels` column.
- Store `labels` when registering `act_runner`.
- Update `labels` when `act_runner` starting and calling `Declare`.
- Users cannot modify the `custom labels` in edit page any more.
other changes:
- Store `version` when registering `act_runner`.
- If runner is latest version, parse version from `Declare`. But older
version runner still parse version from request header.
## Changes
- Adds the following high level access scopes, each with `read` and
`write` levels:
- `activitypub`
- `admin` (hidden if user is not a site admin)
- `misc`
- `notification`
- `organization`
- `package`
- `issue`
- `repository`
- `user`
- Adds new middleware function `tokenRequiresScopes()` in addition to
`reqToken()`
- `tokenRequiresScopes()` is used for each high-level api section
- _if_ a scoped token is present, checks that the required scope is
included based on the section and HTTP method
- `reqToken()` is used for individual routes
- checks that required authentication is present (but does not check
scope levels as this will already have been handled by
`tokenRequiresScopes()`
- Adds migration to convert old scoped access tokens to the new set of
scopes
- Updates the user interface for scope selection
### User interface example
<img width="903" alt="Screen Shot 2023-05-31 at 1 56 55 PM"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/23248839/654766ec-2143-4f59-9037-3b51600e32f3">
<img width="917" alt="Screen Shot 2023-05-31 at 1 56 43 PM"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/23248839/1ad64081-012c-4a73-b393-66b30352654c">
## tokenRequiresScopes Design Decision
- `tokenRequiresScopes()` was added to more reliably cover api routes.
For an incoming request, this function uses the given scope category
(say `AccessTokenScopeCategoryOrganization`) and the HTTP method (say
`DELETE`) and verifies that any scoped tokens in use include
`delete:organization`.
- `reqToken()` is used to enforce auth for individual routes that
require it. If a scoped token is not present for a request,
`tokenRequiresScopes()` will not return an error
## TODO
- [x] Alphabetize scope categories
- [x] Change 'public repos only' to a radio button (private vs public).
Also expand this to organizations
- [X] Disable token creation if no scopes selected. Alternatively, show
warning
- [x] `reqToken()` is missing from many `POST/DELETE` routes in the api.
`tokenRequiresScopes()` only checks that a given token has the correct
scope, `reqToken()` must be used to check that a token (or some other
auth) is present.
- _This should be addressed in this PR_
- [x] The migration should be reviewed very carefully in order to
minimize access changes to existing user tokens.
- _This should be addressed in this PR_
- [x] Link to api to swagger documentation, clarify what
read/write/delete levels correspond to
- [x] Review cases where more than one scope is needed as this directly
deviates from the api definition.
- _This should be addressed in this PR_
- For example:
```go
m.Group("/users/{username}/orgs", func() {
m.Get("", reqToken(), org.ListUserOrgs)
m.Get("/{org}/permissions", reqToken(), org.GetUserOrgsPermissions)
}, tokenRequiresScopes(auth_model.AccessTokenScopeCategoryUser,
auth_model.AccessTokenScopeCategoryOrganization),
context_service.UserAssignmentAPI())
```
## Future improvements
- [ ] Add required scopes to swagger documentation
- [ ] Redesign `reqToken()` to be opt-out rather than opt-in
- [ ] Subdivide scopes like `repository`
- [ ] Once a token is created, if it has no scopes, we should display
text instead of an empty bullet point
- [ ] If the 'public repos only' option is selected, should read
categories be selected by default
Closes #24501
Closes #24799
Co-authored-by: Jonathan Tran <jon@allspice.io>
Co-authored-by: Kyle D <kdumontnu@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
This adds the ability to pin important Issues and Pull Requests. You can
also move pinned Issues around to change their Position. Resolves #2175.
## Screenshots
The Design was mostly copied from the Projects Board.
## Implementation
This uses a new `pin_order` Column in the `issue` table. If the value is
set to 0, the Issue is not pinned. If it's set to a bigger value, the
value is the Position. 1 means it's the first pinned Issue, 2 means it's
the second one etc. This is dived into Issues and Pull requests for each
Repo.
## TODO
- [x] You can currently pin as many Issues as you want. Maybe we should
add a Limit, which is configurable. GitHub uses 3, but I prefer 6, as
this is better for bigger Projects, but I'm open for suggestions.
- [x] Pin and Unpin events need to be added to the Issue history.
- [x] Tests
- [x] Migration
**The feature itself is currently fully working, so tester who may find
weird edge cases are very welcome!**
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## ⚠️ Breaking
The `log.<mode>.<logger>` style config has been dropped. If you used it,
please check the new config manual & app.example.ini to make your
instance output logs as expected.
Although many legacy options still work, it's encouraged to upgrade to
the new options.
The SMTP logger is deleted because SMTP is not suitable to collect logs.
If you have manually configured Gitea log options, please confirm the
logger system works as expected after upgrading.
## Description
Close #12082 and maybe more log-related issues, resolve some related
FIXMEs in old code (which seems unfixable before)
Just like rewriting queue #24505 : make code maintainable, clear legacy
bugs, and add the ability to support more writers (eg: JSON, structured
log)
There is a new document (with examples): `logging-config.en-us.md`
This PR is safer than the queue rewriting, because it's just for
logging, it won't break other logic.
## The old problems
The logging system is quite old and difficult to maintain:
* Unclear concepts: Logger, NamedLogger, MultiChannelledLogger,
SubLogger, EventLogger, WriterLogger etc
* Some code is diffuclt to konw whether it is right:
`log.DelNamedLogger("console")` vs `log.DelNamedLogger(log.DEFAULT)` vs
`log.DelLogger("console")`
* The old system heavily depends on ini config system, it's difficult to
create new logger for different purpose, and it's very fragile.
* The "color" trick is difficult to use and read, many colors are
unnecessary, and in the future structured log could help
* It's difficult to add other log formats, eg: JSON format
* The log outputer doesn't have full control of its goroutine, it's
difficult to make outputer have advanced behaviors
* The logs could be lost in some cases: eg: no Fatal error when using
CLI.
* Config options are passed by JSON, which is quite fragile.
* INI package makes the KEY in `[log]` section visible in `[log.sub1]`
and `[log.sub1.subA]`, this behavior is quite fragile and would cause
more unclear problems, and there is no strong requirement to support
`log.<mode>.<logger>` syntax.
## The new design
See `logger.go` for documents.
## Screenshot
<details>
</details>
## TODO
* [x] add some new tests
* [x] fix some tests
* [x] test some sub-commands (manually ....)
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Co-authored-by: delvh <dev.lh@web.de>
Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
# ⚠️ Breaking
Many deprecated queue config options are removed (actually, they should
have been removed in 1.18/1.19).
If you see the fatal message when starting Gitea: "Please update your
app.ini to remove deprecated config options", please follow the error
messages to remove these options from your app.ini.
Example:
```
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [E] Removed queue option: `[indexer].ISSUE_INDEXER_QUEUE_TYPE`. Use new options in `[queue.issue_indexer]`
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [E] Removed queue option: `[indexer].UPDATE_BUFFER_LEN`. Use new options in `[queue.issue_indexer]`
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [F] Please update your app.ini to remove deprecated config options
```
Many options in `[queue]` are are dropped, including:
`WRAP_IF_NECESSARY`, `MAX_ATTEMPTS`, `TIMEOUT`, `WORKERS`,
`BLOCK_TIMEOUT`, `BOOST_TIMEOUT`, `BOOST_WORKERS`, they can be removed
from app.ini.
# The problem
The old queue package has some legacy problems:
* complexity: I doubt few people could tell how it works.
* maintainability: Too many channels and mutex/cond are mixed together,
too many different structs/interfaces depends each other.
* stability: due to the complexity & maintainability, sometimes there
are strange bugs and difficult to debug, and some code doesn't have test
(indeed some code is difficult to test because a lot of things are mixed
together).
* general applicability: although it is called "queue", its behavior is
not a well-known queue.
* scalability: it doesn't seem easy to make it work with a cluster
without breaking its behaviors.
It came from some very old code to "avoid breaking", however, its
technical debt is too heavy now. It's a good time to introduce a better
"queue" package.
# The new queue package
It keeps using old config and concept as much as possible.
* It only contains two major kinds of concepts:
* The "base queue": channel, levelqueue, redis
* They have the same abstraction, the same interface, and they are
tested by the same testing code.
* The "WokerPoolQueue", it uses the "base queue" to provide "worker
pool" function, calls the "handler" to process the data in the base
queue.
* The new code doesn't do "PushBack"
* Think about a queue with many workers, the "PushBack" can't guarantee
the order for re-queued unhandled items, so in new code it just does
"normal push"
* The new code doesn't do "pause/resume"
* The "pause/resume" was designed to handle some handler's failure: eg:
document indexer (elasticsearch) is down
* If a queue is paused for long time, either the producers blocks or the
new items are dropped.
* The new code doesn't do such "pause/resume" trick, it's not a common
queue's behavior and it doesn't help much.
* If there are unhandled items, the "push" function just blocks for a
few seconds and then re-queue them and retry.
* The new code doesn't do "worker booster"
* Gitea's queue's handlers are light functions, the cost is only the
go-routine, so it doesn't make sense to "boost" them.
* The new code only use "max worker number" to limit the concurrent
workers.
* The new "Push" never blocks forever
* Instead of creating more and more blocking goroutines, return an error
is more friendly to the server and to the end user.
There are more details in code comments: eg: the "Flush" problem, the
strange "code.index" hanging problem, the "immediate" queue problem.
Almost ready for review.
TODO:
* [x] add some necessary comments during review
* [x] add some more tests if necessary
* [x] update documents and config options
* [x] test max worker / active worker
* [x] re-run the CI tasks to see whether any test is flaky
* [x] improve the `handleOldLengthConfiguration` to provide more
friendly messages
* [x] fine tune default config values (eg: length?)
## Code coverage:
