[Box-Admins] Re: [Webteam] Adding/updating files in FTP (Re: other images)

karl karl.ramberg at chello.se
Wed Oct 18 18:37:21 UTC 2006


Brad Fuller skrev:
> Ken Causey wrote:
>   
>> I can offer two solutions to the issue of hosting images for various
>> people (the FTP side of the problem anyway).
>>
>> 1.  The web team takes responsibility for this (you already own the
>> overall FTP directory) and anyone that wants an image hosted sends it to
>> you or tells you where to get it from.  This way the 'customer' has to
>> work through the web team.  In the past this hasn't worked so well since
>> there hasn't often been more than 1-2 active members and there have been
>> a couple of past instances (John McIntosh's Mac VM updates for example)
>> where the team has not been very responsive to update requests.
>>
>> 2.  A folder is created in the FTP site and under that folder there are
>> seperate folders for each type of image and each of those is owned by
>> the image developer.  Each developer would have his/her own account on
>> box2.  This is much as I have already done for Damien and his
>> Developer's image.
>>
>> I'm not too happy with the idea of creating and managaing a bunch of
>> accounts and would prefer that we start with solution #1 and see how it
>> goes.  Maybe having a larger number of requests more often will result
>> in a faster response time than in the past.  If that doesn't work maybe
>> I will come up with a third solution by the time we find out.
>>   
>>     
> I agree, let's start with #1 and see if the WebTeam can keep up with the
> requests.
>
> brad
Yes, let's go with 1 to begin with.
And it's nice to have you aboard Brad. It's nice with more people
that help out.
Karl


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