fosslc/freeseer — Issue #147: track failures
Author: fosslc
Created: 2011-10-24 03:24:49+00:00
State: open

There are a handful of reasons that tend to cause most of the recording failures we've seen. We should track them for two main reasons:

1) So we have actual metrics and data on the failures
2) So we can automate posting notifications for any failed recordings. Today we have nothing and we get crushed by the effort to manually check if a given speaker's talk turned out, just didn't get posted by accident, was posted but they simply didn't see it yet, etc.

I'd like to have a single blog post after a big event listing known talks that didn't get recorded.

The goal of this ticket is to enhance our system to track and accommodate this. The UI could be as simple as offering a "failed" button to the user and then prompting for a reason why the talk failed. Other would provide a text box for a free form reason.