While I agree that the Episode service is very valuable, from a UX perspective, I think it is a mistake to have it available by default exactly as is, for many reasons that I have explained in the earlier thread [3]. The mockup you point to, Rüdiger, is the more ambitious one that I understand we can not possibly implement at this time. I did also, however, propose two simpler approaches, which keep the two UI's (one for looking at workflow instances, the other for managing media packages) on separate pages but do not make them seem so completely unrelated and do not introduce potentially confusing terminology. In particular, Approach 2 [4] changes very little (I believe, perhaps naively, it would be very easy to implement), but simply makes both UI's available under the Recordings tab. I would like to propose this (or something very similar) as a counterproposal.
Judy [3] http://opencast.3480289.n2.nabble.com/Renaming-the-quot-Recordings-quot-tab-proposal-td6783119i20.html#a6803786 [4] http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Keeping+Episodes+UI+Separate+from+Workflow+Instances+UI#KeepingEpisodesUISeparatefromWorkflowInstancesUI-Approach2 On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Ruediger Rolf wrote: > Hi list, > > in the developer meeting today the question came up why the Episode UI [1] is > not activated by default. Several people have not noticed this feature yet > because of this. > > There was some discussion on this UI when it was created and there was not > been a concensus on this UI. So the solution to this was to deactivate by > default. There were some > > But the Episode service is one of the main enhancements in 1.3 and anyone in > the dev meeting today felt sorry that most users cannot use it because of the > hidden UI. > > There is already a proposal on how to combine the workflow and the episode > service in the UI [2], but implementing this is out of focus for 1.3 and > maybe even for 1.4 as no one has himself commited to this feature yet. > > So the proposal is to active the "episode" UI despite all concerns, with no > or only minor changes (changing the name of the tab i.e.). We want to avoid a > long discussion that may delay the release, as we hope that the release is > only one release blocker away... so let us keep the discussion short and give > your +1 or -1. > > Thanks > Rüdiger > > [1] see here how to activated this: > http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/The+Episode+Service > [2] I hope I found the right mockup: > http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Combining+Episodes+and+Workflow+Instances > > -- > > ________________________________________________ > Rüdiger Rolf, M.A. > Universität Osnabrück - Zentrum virtUOS > Heger-Tor-Wall 12, 49069 Osnabrück > Telefon: (0541) 969-6511 - Fax: (0541) 969-16511 > E-Mail: [email protected] > Internet: www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
