[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #1081: FTP upload silently fails when nodes < happiness

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#1081: FTP upload silently fails when nodes < happiness
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     Reporter:  slush          |       Owner:                       
         Type:  defect         |      Status:  new                  
     Priority:  major          |   Milestone:  1.7.0                
    Component:  code-frontend  |     Version:  1.7β                 
   Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  ftpd upload happiness
Launchpad Bug:                 |  
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Changes (by zooko):

  * milestone:  soon => 1.7.0


Comment:

 I think we should treat this as a v1.7 issue as far as documenting that it
 can happen and instructing people on how to avoid it or to diagnose that
 this is the cause of their problem (but not treat it as a v1.7 issue as
 far as changing any code to improve it).

 So, ideally we would update some docs, probably in [source:docs/frontends
 /FTP-and-SFTP.txt], explaining that if you have insufficient servers for
 servers-of-happiness then uploads will silently fail. (This will be along
 with docs changes per #1024 and #1082 which will hopefully make users more
 aware of the servers-of-happiness issues in general.) The FTP-and-SFTP
 docs should point users to other docs such as running.html / using.html
 which explain how to set up multiple servers, how to see how many servers
 you have set up, how to configure servers-of-happiness, and how to see
 what your current servers-of-happiness configuration is.

 Then, having written this doc, we'll move this ticket from the "1.7"
 Milestone to the "soon" Milestone and ship Tahoe-LAFS v1.7 final!

 Then we'll see if we can somehow change our code to signal failure
 reliably to the user of an FTP or SFTP frontend so that they can detect
 and diagnose failures.

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