Remove folders under folders from Media Files?

[Glen Mazza]

Hi Team, I've earlier gotten rid of subcategories below categories and 
bookmark folders under bookmark folders (for the latter, still allowing 
multiple folders, although all top-level now.)  In both cases, the code 
shrunk considerably with the remaining code being much simpler and robust.

I wonder if we should be doing the same for Media Files -- i.e., like 
Bookmarks, allow as many top-level Media File folders as desired but 
remove the ability to create subfolders under folders. (The migration 
for blogs using older Roller versions, as done earlier with Bookmarks 
and Catgories, will just make any subfolder a top-level folder.)  Our 
Jenkins failures for the past month may very well be related to this 
issue and we've had other JPA headaches with Media Files in the past, so 
simplifying Media Files in this manner would probably result in a more 
solid Roller.

As a practical matter, those with up to a few hundred media files will 
not be impacted much with this change, they can still chop up their 
media files in the 10-20 top-level folders they would want. For those 
going beyond that, i.e., where subfolders are likely to become handy, I 
view it more likely that people will start to hold their photos on 
Flickr or similar services and just embed the photos/slideshows on their 
blog (Flickr already offers two nice embedding services using iframes 
and HTML img tags); or due to the fact that Roller already limits media 
files to a single blog and not per-blog server, store their images in a 
common CMS like Apache Jackrabbit where it can be accessed by multiple 
blogs and other non-blog websites.  In other words, a company with 4000 
images is probably not going to be manually uploading them via Roller's 
Media Files functionality to each blog needing them but just storing 
them centrally anyway, outside of Roller.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Glen