Comment 1 for bug 627701

I'd like to note that I've added a pageid scope feature already, so all thats needed is something like this:

07:51 <lifeless> === modified file 'lib/canonical/launchpad/webapp/adapter.py'
07:51 <lifeless> --- lib/canonical/launchpad/webapp/adapter.py 2010-09-14 04:52:39 +0000
07:51 <lifeless> +++ lib/canonical/launchpad/webapp/adapter.py 2010-09-17 19:50:58 +0000
07:51 <lifeless> @@ -272,6 +272,13 @@
07:51 <lifeless> if not getattr(_local, 'enable_timeout', True):
07:51 <lifeless> return None
07:51 <lifeless> if timeout is None:
07:51 <lifeless> + timeout_str = getFeatureFlag('hard_timeout')
07:51 <lifeless> + if timeout_str:
07:51 <lifeless> + try:
07:51 <lifeless> + timeout = float(timeout_str)
07:51 <lifeless> + except ValueError:
07:51 <lifeless> + logging.error('invalid hard timeout flag %r', timeout_str)
07:51 <lifeless> + if timeout is None:
07:51 <lifeless> timeout = config.database.db_statement_timeout
07:51 <lifeless> if not timeout:
07:51 <lifeless> return None

(and tests) grepping for 'lp.services.features' in existing doctests will show (a way) to do it.