Thinking aloud here, and really it's just thinking because I don't have
a tremendous amount of bandwidth to enact many of these thoughts.
Often folks do wrong things with import... though it's documented on the
Wiki and in the manpage. I'm getting somewhat frustrated with
answering the question, so when that happens, I typically think...
what about the application can be done so that folks who do /not/ fully
read and understand the documentation end up (A) figuring things out,
and (B) not asking the question.
So far, I think it's because import does not strongly enough force folks
down the path of using a DVD or ... if not ... entering the right
arguments to important for what they want to do.
A wizard based approach versus command line flags /might/ work ...
though it would have to be done for both the web app and the CLI.
(I think there's also a lot of questions asked about repos and so
forth. What others?)
We could perhaps start with the web app and somehow suggest most folks
start there ... and leave the command line as is (which is probably easier).
This might just mean pushing the docs about the Web app and manpage
higher up so folks find those first, and once we can do important from
the WUI, that would perhaps solve it.
--Michael
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