[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1429: automatically upload a file when it is put in a given local directory

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#1429: automatically upload a file when it is put in a given local directory
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  warner
  davidsarah             |     Status:  new
         Type:           |  Milestone:  1.9.0
  enhancement            |    Version:  1.8.2
     Priority:  major    |   Keywords:  drop-upload inotify usability
    Component:  code-    |  reviewed news
  frontend               |
   Resolution:           |
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Comment (by zooko):

 Brian mentioned on IRC that he was uncertain about including this feature
 in 1.9. His reasoning persuaded me that we might want to be a bit
 conservative about distributing this feature in a way that makes people
 think of it as being a fully supported feature of Tahoe-LAFS. It is new
 and we haven't thought about it that much, and we don't want to take on
 the burden of backward compatibility for this feature the way we do for
 all of the supported features in Tahoe-LAFS.

 I think maybe we should go ahead and include this feature in Tahoe-LAFS
 v1.9 but mark it as an experimental feature which we don't necessarily
 commit to supporting at this time.

 Having a new feature in a release seems like a great way to learn about
 whether we want to promote it to a fully supported feature in a future
 release.

 If this is agreeable to everyone, we should make sure to flag it as
 experimental in the release announcement and docs.

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Ticket URL: <http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1429#comment:27>
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