Re: [dl-ticket-service] Enhancing upload grants

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Fri, Apr 08 2016, Kelvin Smith  wrote:
> 1) Have a box for entering text that would be sent along with the upload
> notification to me.

I logged this here:

https://github.com/wavexx/dl/issues/35

> 2) Allow users to create their own upload-only account. This should be
> something the owner can decide whether or not to enable, but if I had
> this, then people who want to send me files wouldn't have to ask me for
> a grant first. Notification of the upload would be sent to a standard
> account specified in the configuration.

I too have this problem as of late. For some people I had ongoing
conversations with, generating grants over and over has been annoying.

My idea was to make grants work more in the same spirit as tickets: have
an usage count / time to last usage / total time limit, as for tickets.

If you wanted to give someone a permanent way to exchange files with
you, you would create a "permanent" grant, like you do for tickets.
Otherwise, the grant would default to "unlimited files" (just use the
grant again), with automatic expiry as soon as it's no longer used for a
month.

For existing setups that like the old behavior, you could just set a "1
upload" limit default.

I've logged this here, as this is not exactly a "new" idea:

https://github.com/wavexx/dl/issues/14

but there's increasing pressure in our institute to tackle at
least it within a few months.

[dl-ticket-service] Enhancing upload grants

[Kelvin Smith]

Yuri, I really appreciate your provision of DL. It's been extremely 
useful for me in doing customer support for my software, particularly 
when sending executable or installation files that are often blocked by 
email systems.


A couple of suggestions to enhance the grant capability for people to 
send files to me:


1) Have a box for entering text that would be sent along with the upload 
notification to me.


2) Allow users to create their own upload-only account. This should be 
something the owner can decide whether or not to enable, but if I had 
this, then people who want to send me files wouldn't have to ask me for 
a grant first. Notification of the upload would be sent to a standard 
account specified in the configuration.


Kelvin Smith