Web tools

From Deptford.TV

The specification for some web-based tools is emerging.

We had a try at modelling the collaborative filmmaking process as a flow chart (s).

The point then is not to build mega application, but to see where, here and there, some new scripts/tools could be of help.

Meanwhile in the testing of the simple archiver script (see Version_control) some additional needs emerge, which can become part of the next specification.

1. All interaction with svn should be managed on the web not by individual people/client computers.

This is half-done because the archiver script takes the url of the xml file you want, uses this to create your clips package and gives you the xml file itself as well.

So a version can be passed to another collaborator without need for svn interaction except browsing the repository on the web.

We need to work out how to commit new edits (xml files) to svn over the web. On a basic level this is straightforward but we should try and maintain some kind of user management so that we can use svn to track who did what when.

2. Need manage the downloading of raw asset files more economically.

we (the web app) needs to "remember" who downloaded what clips and ensure that only new clips are included in the downloadable archive.

Of course these two requirements are related. Its about a user management/registration system, and record keeping about who uploaded and downloades what files. It will be easy enough to make a db app that keeps all this info, though at this point its worth thinking about whether to start to use a framework like drupal or code from scratch.

interesting to look into for pre-production: http://www.celtx.com