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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 November 2010 01:51:00 you wrote:
> On 19 November 2010 23:30, Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > On Friday 19 November 2010 01:24:18 Martin Pool wrote:
> >> * "Excruciatingly slow" to get feedback from a dput into a ppa.
> > 
> > Interestingly, that's the first time I've heard that.
> > 
> > We currently process uploads every 5 minutes.  We could fix this by
> > making the upload processor a daemon that watches the incoming ftp
> > directory (zope script startup time is very slow).
> 
> I'm a bit surprised you haven't heard this before (I don't mean to be
> snarky) because I often do see people saying "what happened to my
> upload?", 

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.

> and certainly every time I see it myself I wonder what's
> going to happen.  Having to wait a while to get a builder is
> understandable, but having this relatively long silence is quite
> off-putting.  So if something can be done that would be superb.

It's on the wishlist!  Not exactly high-priority unfortunately :(

Cheers
J