Hi Denny, great to see that you are doing a decent review of the archive *and* are sending feedback to this list :-)
> In 1.3, all "recordings" show under the episodes tab, but in 1.4 the > only way to get things in there is to check the "archive" box when > scheduling. The reason for this change is that some developers were unhappy with the archive now actually behaving like an archive, meaning it actually archives your content, which requires space on your hard drive. This is why you need to explicitly check the "archive" checkbox. You can easily change your workflow definition to do archival by default, just remove the checkbox from the ui portion of the workflow definition and remove the "if" clause from the "archive" operation. > Further, when I do this, the "state" of the episode/archive is always > "retracted". > Further further, whenever I try to "do stuff" with "episodes" -- > re-encode, retract, etc. -- it fails. I generally see jetty-related > file errors like this in the log: > > WARN (AbstractEpisodeServiceRestEndpoint$2$1:353) - Error writing file > contents to response > org.mortbay.jetty.EofException > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpGenerator.flush(HttpGenerator.java:789) > > Probably a configuration issue. I'm gonna mess around with the storage > stuff in a second anyways, and see if that changes things. Actually less probably a configuration issue but a bug. 1.4 is still work in progress and there are bugs that need to be resolved. If you manage to reliably reproduce an issue, please consider filing a bug at opencastproject.jira.com. > It seems like there is a ton of functionality exposed through REST and > very little exposed via the UI, which seems a bit odd... but I digress. There is an easy fix to that as well. Donate your insights into what needs to be in the ui to the project in terms of mock ups, user stories in Jira or even resources, and things will magically start to appear in the ui as well :-) We have lots of ideas for the archive, but we are currently lacking the equivalent amount of resources aka money. > Is the plan to rename "Episodes" to "Archives" (I think I saw convo > about this)? And what do folks think about tooltips in the UI? > Probably go a long way towards making things easier for newbies... Again, mock ups would be helpful that propose contents for these tool tips. After that, all it takes is consensus and a developer who turns the mocks into real code. Tobias _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
