Sounds like good stuff. Is the plan to eventually use this new stuff on special:upload.
--bawolff On Jun 22, 2015 2:27 PM, "Mark Holmquist" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, Multimedians. > > I've been talking with our new multimedia team, we're just getting to the point > where we have a really good idea of where we want to go after a little while > of doing work mostly on existing issues and refactoring efforts, and I have > a small announcement to make. > > In the next few months, we intend to work on pulling upload API logic into core, > and writing a new interface for uploading files from VisualEditor. Our initial > plan involved refactoring UploadWizard to a point where including it in VisualEditor > would not be difficult, but our new plans include usability improvements that, > in my opinion, would unnecessarily enmire our work. Our team will be submitting > patches to OOJS-UI, MediaWiki Core, and VisualEditor itself in an effort to get > this project off the ground, as well as tweaking configuration settings in mw-config > and generally running around looking for code review. > > Rest assured, we intend to maintain our commitment to fixing bugs in UploadWizard > as they come up, as well as bugs in the myriad other Multimedia projects. Please > continue to bother the Multimedia team if and when things go wrong, we are always > happy to help you, or at least point you in the right direction. > > Here is a rough roadmap of where we need to go in the next few months: > > # mw.Api.plugin.upload API to automatically detect what methods are available for the browser, take a File object or file input, and perform the upload > ## Base upload API with simple API call, quick and dirty, with gadget proof-of-concept https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103397?workflow=create > ## Expand to use File API where available https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103398 > ## Expand to support stashing with appropriate continue-upload API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103399 > ## {{stretch}} Expand to use chunked uploading where available https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103398 > > # Tie together all of those things into an Upload object or similar in core, so we can handle it with relative ease in our mostly-UI extension > ## Create Upload model API in core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103413 > ### Base functionality - use the new upload API to upload a file, configurable to use stash > ### Base functionality - finish stash upload > ### Base functionality - set file description page text for upload (to be used in finish-stash call, or in initial upload if no stash option passed in) > > # Upload OOUI widget can then just use all of those things, and it can live in VE instead of having to be across a couple of extensions. > ## Create upload widget in VE https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91717 {{epic}} > ### Upload inspector > ### File input widget in OOUI {{done}} > ### Take file from widget, use upload API in core to stash > ### Description/licensing/category form > ### Emit finished upload from widget > ## Use upload widget for inserting files into VE https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91717 (new task?) > ### Add upload widget as above > ### Use emitted file to construct thumbnail (file API?), caption (based on description) > ## Drag-and-drop https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40031 > ## Copy-paste https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39932 > > -- > Mark Holmquist > Lead Engineer, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJViG6mAAoJEEPl+wghkjzxdicQALMoOspVSWENBCJ65WB+HIWy > FNMgHjucR0EddYz/GA6fCca/Lxi22N/ZmDOAPIuce8hDv6roJgq3pI2hcDMF9Ugw > szN6NX/T0Se8I7gHQ4ypDh+y+SdxLrpaRXIhFbrgtPTUXbiyDx4e2IK4BvQ608yG > jVMV/pF27QVHP9Ovv3Jai+6qg5zwfNYzudfUktPh2JeGLWfW7QoX5eqxEQNP/xP4 > EX7Aw3sTPB1ZClYEmznSWYLj4xP20qrGpikDhT6RhtnBMCqobahDK+92x1ZBHoRw > N7+E2IKQzksGdwupqujifbDE/hzVRJI5x6mZQvSwdJBdyJQ1291IzWKgVfZIvcmg > u9/OiP7fYz7gabhBeO1aqcwGp5zTMXNNaLnf2Zr77E18IbCoK6sAATz24btUkojj > UcZVYKDB2m/SDtKaCzqnz4ZfeI0zmxd1KvdgJKoQ5wfDDKo9pjPuT0cFR0V3oF2N > wmbRtmGZgBWzlTug4kuv0VPVJw1+j8jbHBKeULbB3tJi3XQ4oX7z/WjkeV4+RL9f > 5CVG950hYma7EeofjDWVWxiKpBqs+w2GkSTzPklJl+Vzl4Ju4i3eYKJdMkVNlbPV > qo1XayvSOG8FUqlhHxSFMcrBqZC9sL0V7sXPdQ/iAdVyL1A3Sf0IjGCDjjUEw3yj > AbQDe+CMA6rQ/zo3JYKH > =NHDV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia >
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