Making small changes in channels generated with Ricecooker

[vahidmas]

• ricecooker version:
• Python version:
• Operating System:

Description

Describe what you were trying to get done.
Tell us what happened, what went wrong, and what you expected to happen.

Once a (large) channel has been created, there often is a need to make small modifications (to the channel description, or tagline or similar). Making the small change demands running the whole channel again instead of modifying the small aspect of the channel that needs an update.

In some cases, running a whole channel implies downloading a large series of files, for example. This diminishes productivity since the changes made cannot be assessed until the process has run completely.

Especially with regards to the files that are scraped, it might be interesting to be able to make edits to the channel while avoiding having to re-download / re-process them if the changes don't involve them directly.

Possibilities:

1. One way to work through this could be to make changes in Ricecooker, and
2. another path might be to enable changes in Studio (with the issue that those changes would not be visible on the Sushichef unless Studio becomes able to talk back to Ricecooker?).

What I Did

Paste the command(s) you ran and the output.
If there was a crash, please include the traceback here.

[rtibbles]

For context, some previous work was done on this in ricecooker, which attempted to make 'corrections' to a previously created channel. For a variety of reasons - mostly due to its reliance on the internal API endpoints in Studio for this, this has not been maintained. When revisiting this, it may be good to instead leverage the 'change event' approach that the Studio frontend uses, in order to make small corrections to a channel.