unable to subscribe ~launchpad with new JS widget

This is interesting. I think the way to solve this specific case is to always show exact matches first, and if there's too many matches, then just show the exact match.
Not sure what part of the machinery needs to be changed, but it would be nice to change it globally and not have to fix this bug on each person picker.
Deryck, I think this is your baby :)

Sure, I can take this one. :) I'm not sure I can get it this cycle, but I'll leave it targeted as such since I'm in an aggressive bug hunt mode for subscriber bugs.

I think the right fix is to sort by rank, rather than name, (so the likeliest matches top-post), and then show the first N results when the total is larger than N that can be displayed. We will need to investigate, too, if this change to the picker searching will be a problem for anywhere else this widget is used. My guess is not, since an empty result when dealing with a large result set would likely be a pain for most any use case.

Assigning to lp-foundations, too, since it concerns the picker.

The picker is failing due to a timeout. OOPS-1266S267

I'd question whether this is critical. Critical needs an incident report to be filed, amongst other things. Since this is in progress I'm going to move it back to high. It can be rolled out in a re-roll later this week.

Fixed in db r8199.