Hey Hank, > I noticed, on the Welcome page of the most recent Matterhorn 1.3.x, > two new buttons titled "Capture Tools" and "Confidence Monitoring". > > As far as I can tell these two buttons are designed to reference > pages on a Capture Agent and not on the server, and currently > reference the demo capture agent, which won't be installed on a lot > of servers.
Good catch. You're right, they shouldn't be on the welcome page. We are hoping to put confidence monitoring in the admin ui though. E.g. you should almost never have to log into the capture agent, you should be able to do everything through the admin UI. Capture agent logins are really just meant for diagnosis of issues or "advanced usage". > One of the things I really liked about the Matterhorn architecture > was the pretty clean split between the capture agent and the server, > and the defined REST API containing the interface and features that > needed to be provisioned. I think this new Welcome page muddies the > water a lot and suggest these new buttons be removed or relocated > somewhere else. Agreed. > In fact, to go even further, with two new commercial encoders > available for Matterhorn (Epiphan and NCast) and more in the > pipeline, maybe it's time to split off the CA reference design into > its own project to keep the CA at arms length from the server and to > keep that nice split clean and very clearly defined. The problem with this is QA activity. As a community I think it's useful to say "here is the server, here is the agent, you can use it all under the ecl and email questions to us at x". I (personally) don't think we want to encourage a lot of vendor-specific questions. I don't want to discourage them either, but the reality is that there is little we can do about vended products unless they are open source. So, I prefer the one large project with deployment profiles as appropriate (so you don't have to deploy the whole thing if you don't want to). Can you file your comment in jira, and assign to Adam McKenzie please? Chris -- Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 Phone: 1.306.966.1442 Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
