uploading distfiles directly to the distfiles mirror

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 6, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> How would you envision this capability being provided? I wouldn't want to, for example, just open up ftp write access to the distfiles server to anyone who asked for it.
> 
> maybe for maintainers (or committers only)?
> 
> and probably 'sftp' instead of 'ftp'
> 
>> Would we make a web page where people can upload a distfile for a particular port?
> 
> sure, that would work too.
> 
> I would think people's mirrors would go in a user directory too (similar to how the svn stuff worked) - so it would be obvious that it was a maintainer/committer sourced distfile.

In that case, this is sounding like a different and separate file hosting service we could provide, not to be thought of as part of the distfile mirror.