docs: document definition of workspace activity #16941
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| ### What counts as workspace activity? | ||
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| A workspace is considered "active" when Coder detects one or more active sessions with your workspace. Coder specifically tracks these session types: |
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I want to add something like "saving changes to code counts as activity," which I think is true, but it seems like that might be oversimplified. Is there a good single-(noncomplex)-sentence summary we can add here?
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That would be really nice but as far as I understand our activity tracking is based on network usage and doesn't count file activity.
I am not sure who is the right person to confirm this.
Maybe @deansheather?
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@f0ssel I've realized I don't know what state we left things in re: the workspace activity refactor. Can you look at this section and comment whether it's accurate regarding the code as it exists today?
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LGTM, but I'd like @f0ssel to double-check the conditions under which we bump the autostop time due to activity. Doesn't have to block the merge, as we can fix it up in a second PR.
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merging this as-is and we'll come back to it with more edits with the workspace activity refactor |
closes: #16884
aligns the documentation with what users see when they adjust settings and uses the notion discussion as a reference. This PR reflects current behavior from what I can tell.
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