Show artifact name and overall progress when uploading a snap with components

Metadata

Project: snapcraft
Number: #5257
Type: issue
State: open
Author: farshidtz
Labels: Status: Triaged Type: Enhancement
Created: 2025-02-13 08:21 AM UTC
Updated: 2025-04-21 05:46 PM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Enhancement request: snapcraft upload with components shows a bare 'Uploading...' bar per artifact with no artifact name or overall progress. Triaged as a UX improvement (JIRA SNAPCRAFT-1033); still unimplemented in snapcraft/commands/upload.py.

Suggested action: keep open

Reason: Maintainer mr-cal explicitly endorsed it ('This would be a good UX improvement... craft-cli has a progress bar that could be used'), it carries the 'Status: Triaged' label and an internal ticket (SNAPCRAFT-1033), and it remains a valid gap: snapcraft/commands/upload.py:211 still calls create_callback() with the hardcoded 'Uploading...' label, and line 139 only logs the component name via emit.debug, so neither the artifact name nor an aggregate progress is shown. Silence for ~528 days is not a reason to close, and the fix touches craft-cli/craft-store integration, so it is not a one-liner but is well-scoped enough to keep open.

Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot

Impact: 30 Quick Win: 8 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 82 Actionability: 58

Issue body

### What needs to get done When uploading a snap with several components, the upload progress is shown for the snap itself, then replaced for each component. The total size of the specific artifact is shown, but not the name of what is being uploaded. ``` Uploading... [████████████████████ ] 1461813248/3586724066 ``` ### Why it needs to get done It is difficult to guess the overall upload progress. It is not clear what has already been uploaded, what is currently being uploaded, and what remains.

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-10-02 05:14 PM UTC	stealth/space-bunny-alpha	Impact: 30 Quick Win: 8 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 82 Actionability: 58	keep open	Enhancement request: snapcraft upload with components shows a bare 'Uploading...' bar per artifact with no artifact name or overall progress. Triaged as a UX improvement (JIRA SNAPCRAFT-1033); still unimplemented in snapcraft/commands/upload.py.
2026-09-20 01:42 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Impact: 35 Quick Win: 18 Complexity: 30 Confidence: 80 Actionability: 75	keep open	Enhancement to show artifact names and overall progress during snap/component uploads. Currently shows only bytes transferred without artifact names.
2026-09-01 02:52 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 25 Quick Win: 14 Staleness: 75 Complexity: 45 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 5	keep open	Enhancement: when uploading a snap with components, the progress bar shows only 'Uploading...' without the artifact name or overall progress. Triaged and acknowledged as a good UX improvement; no work since April 2025 and the code still shows the same behavior.
2026-07-22 12:14 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 75 Complexity: 45 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 5	keep open	Enhancement to display artifact names and overall upload progress during multi-component snap uploads. Triaged and acknowledged by maintainers as a valid UX improvement, but currently inactive for over a year.
2026-07-08 05:02 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 65 Complexity: 40 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 5	keep open	Enhancement to display artifact names and overall upload progress during multi-component snap uploads. Currently shows only per-component progress without names. Triaged and acknowledged by maintainers as a valid UX improvement.

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