Personally, #2, but I just know lazy / nontechnical people are going to feel railroaded into publishing and complain. They need confirmation screens, as many as possible lol.

Recommend #1 

 Yeah it's more tedious for power users, but less error-prone for newbies.

We can always add a power user mode later. 

 Power users will use a batch-script to mass-import with my utility. 😅