On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Ganesh Mathrubootham<[email protected]> wrote: > I see that Dave has merged media blogging branch back to trunk and that he > is also in the middle of writing migration code for the old file system. I > thought I would get started with the other critical issue identified for 5.0 > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1816). Also, Dave identified > some minor issues before the end of student project, which have been logged > as a comment here(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1765). Unless I > hear otherwise from Dave or others, I will get started with these > fixes/enhancements related to media blogging in the next couple of days.
Hi Ganesh, I'm finally finding some time now to work on Roller and Media Blogging. I'm almost done with the migration issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1815 I've also done some work to remove our old Javascript library dependencies. We now use YUI alone and no longer rely on Prototype/Scriptaculous. And I was planning to work on removing the FileManager next: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1816 ROL-1816 is likely to be a fair amount of work. Want to break it up or at least start working on different parts of the work? For example, I should start at the bottom (with the AtomPub stuff) and you could start at the top with rewriting the old ResourceServlet to honor old resource URLs by using the new MediaFileManager. There are also a list of improvements in ROL-1765 that we should consider. I think the aspect ratio improvements are first priority as images look strangely stretched in the new UI. We should create JIRA issues for the items that we intend to fix from this list: Improvements * Should maintain original aspect ratio when resizing images for thumbnails * Should maintain original aspect ratio when user sets image width and height * Should store media-files on disk with three letter extension * When Attaching uploaded file, should initially show search results on type image * After editing a media file, should update title if it changed * Insert button doesn't really stand out, wasn't clear how this page worked at first * Like rest of Roller, new UI needs some work to make it aesthetically pleasing One suggested RFE: better bandwidth and UI via true thumbnails * Store real thumbnails instead of resizing image in browser * Create and store small, medium and large thumbnails on disk for each media file * Small for view media page. Allow users to choose a size when linking to image * Add media from URL should save metadata for image and store thumbnail Interested in working on any of those items? Thanks, - Dave
