[Clipart] PASSFAIL Report

[Nicu Buculei]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> Well, how much of an impact in terms of time would it be on a user to
> wait for a while why this process happens? What is the best way to speed
> up the user experience in your opinion? I would vote for a separate
> script.

probably is faster to use a separate script, but the feedback is less: 
the user will know that the upload was successful, but will not know if 
  what happen after (unpacking, metadata addition) is successful or not

> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 03:58, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> 
>>Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>What occurs if someone wraps a MYFILE.SVG in a zipfile and uploads it?
>>
>>Currently, the upload script does not look inside archives except to
>>find or insert metadata.rdf.  This could be changed.  It would be
>>possible to have the upload script actually do the unpacking, adding
>>the embedded metadata, or the metadata specified at upload time, to
>>every image, allowing image-specific metadata to override it.
>>
>>Or the upload script could leave the archives in one piece like it
>>does now, and a separate unpacking script could do the above.
>>
>>What think ye?


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nicu