Submissions shouldn't require titles

[Jef van Schendel]

When submitting an image, it's currently necessary to fill in the
title field or the user will get a "Field must be between 1 and 500
characters long." notice.

However, a title should not be required when submitting. For
instance, when submitting a large amount of images the user might
not want to think of and type in titles for every single one. We
should leave it up to the user to determine whether titles are
needed or not, instead of blocking the submission process.

[Sebastian Spaeth]

I believe flickr fills in the filename as title if the title is
left empty. In some cases that makes sense, but in most cases it's
completely useless. Not sure what we want to do here (personally,
I think pics without title are fine).

[Aaron Williamson]

Submitted a merge request to implement Flickr-like functionality as
Sebastian suggests:
`https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/merge\_requests/7 <https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/merge_requests/7>`_

[Aaron Williamson]

Upon further consideration, defaulting to the filename might be the
wrong solution for the current process. Flickr's upload process is
two-part: 1) upload image, 2) fill in details. Title defaults to
filename in step 2's form. With a one-step upload-and-describe
process, defaulting empty titles to the filename means users don't
have the chance to leave the title empty unless they go back and
edit the image data. So maybe blank titles should just remain blank
for now.

Alternatively, or in conjunction, we could implement the two-step
upload process. I think this makes a lot of sense, particularly
when you're uploading many images (possibly via an API). Are there
design reasons not to use a two-step process?

[Jef van Schendel]

Aaron Williamson wrote:

    Are there design reasons not to use a two-step process?


I'm not sure, this is definitely something I'll have to think
about. You know what, I'll close this ticket and continue in a the
ticket I've just created here:

`http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/321 <http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/321>`_

I think the two-step process sounds good, as does the
no-title-required thing. It's important that we can distinguish
uploaded images. Even if there's no title, we can rely on the
images themselves to be visually different. And if they're not, the
user will be able to use the optional title field.

[Aaron Williamson]

0001-On-image-submission-do-not-require-title.-If-none-en.patch

[Aaron Williamson]

For posterity/completeness, I'm attaching the actual patch as
specified in the hacking guide.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Looks good, merged. Thanks!

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/318 .