So... Does Timo know about this conversation/requirements/request?

<quote name="Gergo Tisza" date="2014-05-22" time="14:25:38 -0700">
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Okee doke.  How much time should we ask for to fix both TMH and
> > MediaViewer?
> >
> 
> Personally my recommendation would be to keep the jQuery backwards
> compatibility script until the next release branch is cut (which is in
> November, I think?). It does not block any further work (the upgrade
> already happened, the script just keeps some removed methods in existence),
> and for third parties who are working with the tarballs, switching from
> jQuery 1.8 to 1.11 without any help in transitioning will be harsh.
> 
> As far as multimedia issues are concerned: we agreed (as I understand it)
> to only work on TMH upgrade after the GWToolset load issues are resolved,
> since those actually block people from using the site, while depending on
> deprecated jQuery methods does not. If we want to revisit that decision,
> fixing TMH is probably not a huge amount of work - we could start on it now
> and be done by the original June 1 target date. If we stick to giving
> GWToolset higher priority - it's hard to estimate how long that will take.
> The optimistic scenario is that our current plans (rendering reference
> thumbnails on upload, using a reference thumbnail chain to speed up
> resizing and lighten the bandwidth load of scalers, use poolcounter to
> limit the number of expensive images that can be thumbnailed in parallel)
> are sufficient and turn out to be not too hard to implement, in which
> case... maybe a month? Gilles probably has a better grasp on the timeline.
> My optimistic estimates tend to be optimistic in the negative sense of the
> word :-)

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