[Wikitech-l] Audio/video updates: TimedMediaHandler, ogv.js, and mobile

2015-06-11 Thread Brion Vibber
I've been passing the last few days feverishly working on audio/video stuff, cause it's been driving me nuts that it's not quite in working shape. TL;DR: Major fixes in the works for Android, Safari (iOS and Mac), and IE/Edge (Windows). Need testers and patch reviewers. *== ogv.js for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] Audio/video updates: TimedMediaHandler, ogv.js, and mobile

2015-06-11 Thread Fabrice Florin
Nicely done, Brion! We’re very grateful for all the mobile multimedia work you’ve been doing on your ‘spare time’ … Much appreciated, Fabrice On Jun 11, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've been passing the last few days feverishly working on audio/video

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] Audio/video updates: TimedMediaHandler, ogv.js, and mobile

2015-06-11 Thread Michael Dale
Very impressive, amazing progress for a part time project ! Thats interesting that iOS supports M-JPEG, had not heard that before. Per M-JPGEG in wikipedia app ... They have WKWebView webview in iOS8 and above no? so in theory could run the JS engine against the same subset of iOS devices at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Kanban: An alternative to Scrum?

2015-06-11 Thread Rachel Farrand
Reminder:This talk will be taking place on Monday. Hope you can join! On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* Kanban: An alternative to Scrum? *Presenter:* Kevin Smith *Date:* June 15th *Time:*

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-11 Thread Ori Livneh
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: a parse of the Barack Obama article. A parse of *English Wikipedia's* Barack Obama article. I am trying, I am trying... :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-11 Thread Quim Gil
Sorry for breaking the thread with a serious post. ;) While Andre or me possible cannot help reviewing the code of a 2 year old patch, we are trying to help avoiding to run into such situations in the first place. Check our plan to organize a Gerrit Cleanup Day [1] as a possible beginning of a

[Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-11 Thread Ori Livneh
Facebook's HHVM team just completed their first performance lockdown, which they spent focusing on the performance of open-source PHP frameworks under HHVM. The achievement which they chose to highlight in their blog posts is a gain of 19% in their MediaWiki performance benchmark, which is – you