[Ssc-dev] Missing today's scrum

[Nathan of Guardian]

On 10/08/2013 11:40 AM, Harlo Holmes wrote:
> - Going over the logs for our intake system: I did a brief count, and
> received 11 submissions from globaleaks since the last release.  All
> of which appeared on the dashboard (8 media, 3 public information
> packages).  Which leads me to believe that anyone's dropped
> submissions are due to not being able to connect to GL from our client
> at the moment.  I'll go over the notifications to see if these are
> sufficiently transparent to the user and is less confusing.
This is an important point, which is that it is *virtually guaranteed*
that on a mobile device, using a mobile network, any type of submission
of a large file (be it a high-res photo or even larger high-res video),
is likely to fail due to network issues, battery issues, processor
issues, etc.

Adding in Tor to that mix, makes it even trickier, because you are
cutting your bandwidth at best by 75% and likely more.

At this point, we are already doing what we can to ensure the upload
happens, and I am okay with it sometimes failing.

What we MUST ensure though is that the user knows when it has failed,
and when it has completed, and not be fooled into thinking it has gone
through when it has not, or not be properly notified when it has failed,
so they can manually try again.

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