The progress bar that doesn't convey any sense of progress (was Re: ...)

[Brian de Alwis]

On 26-Nov-2009, at 9:31 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
> The idea that we should show total_bytes/total_time rather than
> instantaneous bytes/time is interesting to me.  I find it interesting
> to see it change over time.


I find the instantaneous rate useful.  I sometimes have to interact with a slow, overloaded Subversion server with bzr-svn.  Pushes will sometimes fail from a timeout the network is slow (server is ~3000km from me) or if the server is slow.  The instantaneous rates helps me in predicting whether the push will succeed (lunch time!) or fail (stick around to try again).

Brian.

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