opencast/pyCA

Undeprecate `upload_catalogs` option

mtneug opened this issue · 1 comments

The upload_catalogs option has been deprecated for future removal. Could this decision be reverted?

  • When reingesting (e.g. because the recording was deleted from Opencast by mistake) the new recording has no metadata making it hard to manage.
  • When deleting the video while it is recorded the ingest will still happen again with no metadata.

When deleting the video while it is recorded the ingest will still happen again with no metadata.

I think that it would make more sense for pyCA to not ingest the media in such a case. If someone deleted the scheduled event in Opencast, it shouldn't magically re-appear.

When reingesting (e.g. because the recording was deleted from Opencast by mistake) the new recording has no metadata making it hard to manage.

That's also only a problem if it has been completely removed, in which case it actually makes sense for it to not magically re-appear. If it's just that the ingest broke or there was a processing problem, a re-ingest works just fine without these catalogs. Still, we could offer an option to add the title (which we should always have) in these cases, making the events easier to handle. We are talking about manually retrieving events in these cases anyway.