632151 - Add an upload progress bar to the Demo Studio

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Demo Studio / Dev Derby, enhancement)

Description

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

For particularly large demos, there's not much indication of progress. Might be nice to borrow what AMO does for showing file upload in progress

Comment 1

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Some of these demos are quite large now with media like music and videos... so let's try to get this implemented for 0.9.5 to improve the user experience.

Comment 2

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

FWIW: Unless there's an easier way to do it, this turns out to be fairly involved. Might not be worth it for most file uploads.

Just so I don't lose it if/when I come back to this, see also - http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/678/

The technique there is to write a custom file upload handler in Django that updates a cache entry with current progress. 

That cache entry is exposed by a resource that gets polled repeatedly by JS to update a progress bar in the browser until the form upload is done.

Comment 3

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

I suggest we bump to 0.9.6 - 0.9.5 is crowded and over-booked as it is.

Comment 4

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Actually, I'd suggest we bump it farther than that - I don't think this feature will be easy to do without significantly reworking the submission process.

Comment 5

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

That is, split it into a multi-step process. That way, the ZIP file and media are uploaded separately from submission of the rest of the metadata like title and description. (That's how AMO works, FWIW)
 
That will also require some tweaks to demos themselves, allowing someone to create a partial demo submission that stays hidden until all the required media is uploaded, validated, and processed.

Comment 6

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

putting this in product backlog until we prioritize it again

Comment 7

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

For now I'll prioritize it as P4. This does seem very important from a UX point of view, but we are low on resources and high on core work as it is. Do we think we could live if this wasn't done until after December?

Comment 8

[ali spivak]

Demo Studio is being retired from MDN and archived as of end January 2016