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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

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 <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> 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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