On 13/12/11 02:55, David Gerard wrote: > On 12 December 2011 15:26, K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It's been a requested feature for a while, Someone finally got around >> to writing it (I believe it needed the Improved metadata handling >> backend first) and implementing it, It wasn't a sudden "oh lets write >> this and enable it in one day thing", a lot of work went into it and >> subsequent testing. > > > * How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were previously > wrongly rotated and were fixed by the feature? > * How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were previously > correctly rotated and were messed up by the feature? > > i.e., was there strong reason to apply it to past images, not just new ones?
Such statistics were never gathered. I was told by the developers involved that existing images with EXIF rotation would be very rare and that most of them would be fixed by this feature, and I didn't challenge that. I think it's too early to focus on recriminations, we risk distracting people from actually fixing the issue. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l