More Admins's For The Download Server!

[Pickle]

I uploaded a file early in the week and not to spam the server I actually updated the previous release.
It's been a couple days so far and still there hasnt been any approval of the new file.
Is ED the only person that has the ability to approve these? Cant we have a couple more people with admin right's so that the server can be maintained? Or even allow the original submitter to always update the file?

I think the system is flawed. Like i mentioned before I could have very easily created a new entry and had the file up in minutes rather than days.

 

[ledow]

Yeah, this is incredibly annoying. That's why I moved the hosting of my project off to my own server as soon as I found it out. When I do an announcement, I put in the URL for my server (instantly updated) and the archive, along with a warning of "give it a day or two for it to appear on the archive). Human moderation is too slow, especially when a "new" file seems to be put into the archive without the moderation delay at all!

Plus, all my old links for previous versions broke because I uploaded beta3 as a new version and someone deleted the links for the previous beta's because of it. So the URL changed and a lot of links just led to a blank page. This is why I don't bother with the archive any more unless I'm downloading something.

 

[Alex.]

I volunteer to help monitor the archive updates, if ED approves

 

[Pickle]

I volunteer to help monitor the archive updates, if ED approves

Cool! Now if we can just find where he ran off to.

 

[EvilDragon]

Errm, I check the updates at least once a day, normally.

Problem is, there is a bug in cfiles which means that I have to manually rename the file on the server using my master FTP Account - therefore I can't have more admins.

If anybody wants to fix that on a ca. 200kb Perl script, I'd be happy to have more admins.

There are currently two updates waiting for approval (Wolf3D and Football2x) which I will approve as soon as I get home and can access the FTP Server...

 

[Pickle]

Errm, I check the updates at least once a day, normally.

Problem is, there is a bug in cfiles which means that I have to manually rename the file on the server using my master FTP Account - therefore I can't have more admins.

If anybody wants to fix that on a ca. 200kb Perl script, I'd be happy to have more admins.

There are currently two updates waiting for approval (Wolf3D and Football2x) which I will approve as soon as I get home and can access the FTP Server...

Thank you for the explanation. I hope we can find someone that could into this. Sure would be a very nice improvement.

 

[EvilDragon]

I'll try to implement an eMail routine, so that I get an eMail when I need to approve something. That should be possible and it'll definately speed up everything

 

[Pickle]

I'll try to implement an eMail routine, so that I get an eMail when I need to approve something. That should be possible and it'll definately speed up everything

Just give me your email address

Joking aside thanks for jumping on this. Any improvement will be helpful.

 

[Sphinxter]

A ship can have only one captain.

 

[EvilDragon]

Okay, added the eMail notification for myself

 

[Pickle]

Okay, added the eMail notification for myself

Cool

 

[slaanesh]

If anybody wants to fix that on a ca. 200kb Perl script, I'd be happy to have more admins.

What's wrong with the PERL code? What is it doing incorrectly? I do a fair bit of PERL work so perhaps I could see what's wrong?