On 23/11/10 09:45, Julian Edwards wrote: > On Tuesday 23 November 2010 02:28:23 Martin Pool wrote: >> On 22 November 2010 20:20, Julian Edwards <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Most of the time they're either really impatient people or they've made a >>> mistake in the packaging that means we can't email a response. >> >> I think, if it's your first attempt at packaging, those five minutes >> (not that you know it's only five minutes) pass very slowly as you >> wonder what happened. Anyone could look very impatient in those >> circumstances. >> >> Hopefully once we get everyone uploading over sftp we will know their >> email address and therefore will be able to mail them even if they got >> the package wrong, or indeed we could potentially complain on sftp's >> stderr with sufficiently advanced magic. (I realize it may take a >> while...) > > Yep, that's the plan. We tried to do it with ftp and got something working > but it was kind of unreliable. > > Sftp will make it easier but last time I checked there was some resistance > from the Ubuntu team to moving over to it for all uploads. Admittedly, > they're far less likely to make packaging mistakes :)
Casual users on all but the very fastest internet connections are likely to shy away from sftp uploads until someone manages to give them a progress indication, as ftp does. Max.
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