f-spot should auto-retry on gallery upload errors

[over 5000]

Binary package hint: f-spot

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When I export to picasaweb, HTTP 500 (internal server error) happen pretty often.

In order to not need to observe the uploading process, f-spot should retry sending a file several (~3-5) times before asking the user for Retry/Skip/Cancel.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, isn't that the purpose of that retry dialog? Feel free to forward this upstream if you think that's the correct way to do this, thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to 'New'. Thanks again!

[over 5000 (over5000-deactivatedaccount)]

Was that above an automated comment?

I don't know what information is lacking here.

My POV:
"HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error"s are happening pretty often when uploading to Picasaweb, so the user should not be bugged with a retry dialog every time when this can be easily automated.
If f-spot re-tried automagically, say 3 or 5 times before throwing the retry-dialog at the user, most times no user intervention were needed at all.
Have you ever read a mailer daemon failure message? It says "I tried (n) time, but this seems to be a permanent error." This is the right behaviour. When a machine can try to submit the same content several times "OnError", no human should need to do it. That's what machines are made for.

Pedro's POV:
The retry-dialog asks you if you want to retry (as if you wouldn't hit "Retry" 99% of the time anyway, except for if you notice that it still won't work after 5 times!), so we don't care to fix this. Humans should serve machines. Go begging upstream if you want the application to do its work.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this reasoning at all.

Reopening as New.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546988

[spamoften (spamoften-deactivatedaccount)]

Also exists in F-Spot facebook uploader. This is a common issue for all uploaders to cloud-based internet picture sites by the look of it. Please encourage this very simple but useful enhancement, otherwise the WAF of using Ubuntu for facebook is troublesome.