And just a note from QA to say "thanks" for not using those data URI strings! -Chris
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Mark Holmquist <[email protected]>wrote: > Good morning from San Francisco, Multimedians! > > The Multimedia team just finished their weekly planning meeting, and we > decided it would be a fantastic first step to write a quick email each > week describing what sorts of things we're working on and what you can > expect out of us in the coming weeks and months. > > == Release-level == > > On the release level, we've made a few plans in our most recent meeting. > We intend to push back our planned release of MultimediaViewer [0] a few > weeks, pending a better view of how well we're doing with estimating our > velocity and keeping it up. If we do really well, we may release it to > MediaWiki.org as the default for logged-in users as soon as March 13th. > Other releases will follow in a staggered manner. > > == Last week == > > As this release is focused 100% on finishing MultimediaViewer so we can > release it to wider audiences, last week's accepted cards [1] are no > surprise: > > * Several bugfixes to CSS and JavaScript alike, including a nasty bug > involving keyup event handlers [2], a stubborn bug having to do with > foreign database image repositories [3], and a bug arising out of our > lazy-loading patch from the prior week [4]. Also a fix for a race > condition > when loading many images quickly. [5] > * Work on technical debt, in particular consolidating the spaghetti code > strung between two class systems into our single "mmv" module set. [6] > * Showing permissions that are more complicated to the user, instead of > just the license name [7] [8] - this is a big win for Commons, where > file permissions can sometimes be...well, a little hairy. :) > * Loading a fuzzy thumbnail of the image while the bigger image is loading > in the interface [9] - gives you a more consistent viewing experience > that doesn't seem as choppy. > > == This week == > > Notable cards we've scheduled or continued working on this week include > [10]: > > * Share [11] and embed [12] features for the lightbox, using oojs-ui that > is newly in core. We'll be giving you wikitext and HTML code that you > can copy and have images on-wiki or off. Also we'll have an easy link > to the image that you can share on whatever Flitter or Macebook site > your heart desires. I'll be sending a separate mail about this shortly > to update you and be a little more verbose. > * Metrics for MultimediaViewer [13] - we've put this off long enough, it's > high time we had dashboards! These will show you things like how many > times the close button is used, how many times people go into fullscreen, > and also load times for images, metadata, and more. > * Download interface for files [14] - this will use the same panel as share > and embed, but will be slightly differently organized. > > == Future == > > If you have any questions or suggestions for the Multimedia team regarding > this release, or any of the work we're doing, feel free to contact us > on- or off-list. We'll try to be better about using this list in coming > weeks, and we hope you'll enjoy the updates :) > > You can also find us in #wikimedia-multimedia on irc.freenode.net, and > you can leave feedback about our various products on the subpages of our > team page on MediaWiki.org [15]. > > [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer > [1] http://ur1.ca/gpp1a > [2] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/236 > [3] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/217 > [4] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/254 > [5] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/242 > [6] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/177 > [7] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/118 > [8] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/197 > [9] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/146 > [10] http://ur1.ca/gpp39 > [11] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/147 > [12] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/148 > [13] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/54 > [14] > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/79 > [15] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia > > Thanks for reading, and have a good week! > > -- > Mark Holmquist > Software Engineer, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTD49ZAAoJEEPl+wghkjzxIMMQAOMQk0jA4RpzW2qNunsKV0Jq > SvlBh7vh/+M+sZkvFjSQqwH7z4hb/YwEwIDRsKtZRyYV90UzDpKLIC+m/UgKbSmz > FFjOyWQZ8EULekAm1wrY91qP+QqdUZHVZ9xo+LPihWvRSz4lsCJZ3QhiaFtgqmOB > gKM+Ly/TMWYEpUlG8Y5WjFw+qpQSI9VoVXN6RDUXXqEPJSav2DG/Pwd23xDNYlhq > f5rEb6tgDKVxLH5XGJpkDljiWsmQMq1AaOD6IQxrj8Zi3MK5uO2NakrKHxnMEVgb > ek2UDSo/iRdgfSskpqzovIuW4Poz+71BtAUDFFA+frZ56vmxH1KjbteT7oXvK63Q > mluQQye5f+PqSaRXCgOmygeFmF5nVH8TOJKNDgm2AZQ+ZK20oto+PID4bpCShoCP > jQZyxvB98Hb9TcDHCioNVjturhYByfF++p6WCH79iEaEzxt+E3hkSwARxLrVGSqU > NhUJry0EAlQdpEPzwsvom7Bdoe0VxBos6Ja5y4gckEVS86HdOzOE1lCavZmyB5To > W/7dIdIMeIdgUjIUG5uF+crmUDZ9tAbL/oN2tKkwGq+AI3j2rKqdzWOE/lRQSkVq > HpFarUx+rd/rPqhf/3agcTE6sBO7xotbYqCjzi3hrupfukDwv8WW9ZUazAzDPyAP > Cv2EULJ9+36g70IfkiR0 > =cPDa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > >
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