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My workstation is far removed from the server where I’m developing my modules. Neither fetching the tgz to my local workstation, nor uploading via w3m from the server are really convenient.

David – what do have an approach in mind or you don’t like the feature at all?

I personally like the idea of an upload function but I have HTTP/HTTPS access from the server to the Forge.

One of the reasons why I personally I haven’t published many modules on the Forge is that I can’t do them via the tool (eg: via command line). I think that being able to upload modules via the tool is important both for having up to date modules uploaded, both, generally, for a wider usage by users.

My 2c

Igal Koshevoy wrote:

Luke and Michael agreed that we can put a low priority on implementing functionality in the tool that the user can get through the site, other than “search” which is must-have.

To make uploading from the tool, we need to implement feature #3777 “Tool should encode types and dependencies into a release” first, because this vital information isn’t part of the current metadata format.

No way this should be low priority, either.

This would be very useful. Are there any news on this feature?

I recently asked a community member if they would publish a module that I wanted to use to the forge and they indicated that this issue was the #1 issue preventing them from publishing their modules to the forge.

James Turnbull wrote:

Nigel – I think the priority on this ticket is wrong and it seems stalled.

Definitively. For whatever it may count, I add myself to the list of users that would publish on the Forge but don’t do it (or do it rarely) because the upload process is manual and painful. How do you think people will keep modules updated on the Forge if they have to pack them, move them from servers to local desktops, upload via a browser every time they make a relevant change ? Either this or #3874 (and possibly both) are strongly needed, imvho.

Dan was referring to my little “rant” @ github.

So, I just like to second what Alessandro said.

I think it’s something that a lot of people are waiting for.

I’ll also add that it’s become a little confusing where tickets live now that the puppet module tool is part of core Puppet…