Have you never closed by mistake the browser tab where you publishing a solution? Well to me it has happen a couple of times, and it's really painful because although you can see when the publication ends, I don't think that you can actually see it's result or the errors that occured.
There could be a page with perhaps a dashboard with the current running publications and the result of last few publication, so that even the tab gets close or you wanna go home, you can still go to that page and follow the publication.