uploading distfiles directly to the distfiles mirror

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 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.

I don't have a preference for which machine it's hosted on - if we could make use of one of the existing authentication mechanisms, though, that would be great.

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