Cancel button could show up earlier?

[taryneast]

When you initiate a deploy it usually runs fine, but sometimes it doesn't even spin up. Usually this is a permissions thing, and the deployment doesn't even really 'start', just sits there endlessly in the 'running' state.

Sorry for pointing a lot at my blog, but if you need an example of this happening: http://rubyglasses.blogspot.com/2009/12/getting-webistrano-to-deploy-under.html

The issue is that when this happens, you can't cancel the deployment. I'm guessing that because the system doesn't register the deployment as having really 'started' the cancel button doesn't show up. But because the deployment fell over, it'll never stop. The end result is that you can never cancel it and it stays in 'running' forever.

What I found then was while I was continually having to re-test (while fixing the permissions thing) , each time had to break the lock - because officially the deployment hadn't 'finished' even though the deploy process was clearly stillborn :(

Obviously this is an aesthetic issue rather than something that actually stops use - and thus not very high priority at all. But I thought you might want to know of what happens in the pathalogical case. :)

Taryn